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 China and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 Dennis Brown to the dance 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Josef K,
Scrapy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ossler,
Toni Rubio,
Hot Snakes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter & Gordon,
Mo-Dettes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Q65,
The Real Kids,
The J.B.'s,
Black Sheep,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Byrd,
the Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pagans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scan 7,
Smog,
Spandau Ballet,
Hashim,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Michelle Simonal,
The Evens,
the Human League,
Royal Trux,
Terry Callier,
Visage,
The Count Five,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jerry's Kids,
X-101,
Idris Muhammad,
Theoretical Girls,
E-Dancer,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hoover,
the Germs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Iggy Pop,
Nico,
Kas Product,
The Walker Brothers,
Metal Thangz,
Alice Coltrane,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dead C,
Qualms,
Lebanon Hanover,
JFA,
Harmonia,
Ronan,
Brothers Johnson,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Althea and Donna,
Eden Ahbez,
The Standells,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.