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 Czech Republic and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
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 Buzzcocks to the rock 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soft Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Residents,
Arab on Radar,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Altered Images,
Soul II Soul,
The Monochrome Set,
Surgeon,
E-Dancer,
Rapeman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Erykah Badu,
The Birthday Party,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roxy Music,
Yellowson,
Urselle,
Sällskapet,
Blancmange,
The Slits,
The Star Department,
Duran Duran,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kenny Larkin,
Absolute Body Control,
Quando Quango,
Laurel Aitken,
Sexual Harrassment,
Simply Red,
Eric B and Rakim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Black Bananas,
Kaleidoscope,
John Foxx,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cowsills,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
Sun Ra,
Funkadelic,
The Gun Club,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Q65,
Outsiders,
Stereo Dub,
the Normal,
Nirvana,
Lower 48,
The Cure,
The Monks,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.