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 Swaziland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Ken Boothe to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Theoretical Girls,
Subhumans,
Ten City,
Terry Callier,
Black Pus,
Tommy Roe,
Jerry's Kids,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantaleimon,
Pierre Henry,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Donald Byrd,
T.S.O.L.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jimmy McGriff,
a-ha,
New York Dolls,
Pere Ubu,
Idris Muhammad,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Clear Light,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cameo,
Delta 5,
Stetsasonic,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Roxette,
Eli Mardock,
The Saints,
Index,
Toni Rubio,
Au Pairs,
Television Personalities,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dorothy Ashby,
Michelle Simonal,
The Blackbyrds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Soft Cell,
Suicide,
Depeche Mode,
Letta Mbulu,
Minutemen,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fuzztones,
Johnny Osbourne,
Q65,
Barry Ungar,
Soft Cell,
Pantytec,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Harmonia,
Scion,
The Victims,
Sun City Girls,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.