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 Mali and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Josef K to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Skaos,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hot Snakes,
T.S.O.L.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Shoche,
Von Mondo,
The Gladiators,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Birthday Party,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Eve St. Jones,
Can,
Bobby Byrd,
Harmonia,
Animal Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Motions,
The Blues Magoos,
Joensuu 1685,
The Litter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Flash Fearless,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlback,
Infiniti,
The Grass Roots,
Minny Pops,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Slits,
The Tremeloes,
Alton Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
Bauhaus,
Excepter,
Robert Hood,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Finger,
the Germs,
The Fuzztones,
The Cowsills,
Eden Ahbez,
Laurel Aitken,
China Crisis,
ABC,
DJ Sneak,
Grey Daturas,
Maurizio,
Iggy Pop,
These Immortal Souls,
Babytalk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moby Grape,
Gang Starr,
Steve Hackett,
Minutemen,
Aaron Thompson,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.