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 New Zealand and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nico to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scan 7,
The Moleskins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visage,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Human League,
The Stooges,
Heaven 17,
Liliput,
Wire,
Unwound,
The Gladiators,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Minutemen,
Joensuu 1685,
Laurel Aitken,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wings,
Prince Buster,
The Smiths,
Little Man,
Black Bananas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Shadows of Knight,
Erasure,
Ronan,
Magazine,
Bizarre Inc.,
Surgeon,
Wolf Eyes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Desert Stars,
The Angels of Light,
Groovy Waters,
Ludus,
the Bar-Kays,
Bauhaus,
Bobby Sherman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
Ponytail,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Niagra,
Marc Almond,
Make Up,
Wasted Youth,
These Immortal Souls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Freddie Wadling,
The Count Five,
the Sonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.