Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Djibouti and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Black Flag to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Tres Demented,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Main Source,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Sherman,
Bronski Beat,
China Crisis,
Fluxion,
Oblivians,
Max Romeo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Susan Cadogan,
The Victims,
Rotary Connection,
Erasure,
The Martian,
Scan 7,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cameo,
PIL,
Negative Approach,
X-101,
Althea and Donna,
Minor Threat,
the Bar-Kays,
Magma,
Reagan Youth,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Monochrome Set,
Soulsonic Force,
R.M.O.,
Joey Negro,
The Techniques,
Gang of Four,
June of 44,
Soft Machine,
Minny Pops,
Kas Product,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Leaves,
Gang Starr,
Don Cherry,
Crime,
Black Flag,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Byron Stingily,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pagans,
Television,
MDC,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Babytalk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Saints,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.