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 Taiwan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 The Index to the techno 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Stiv Bators,
Quantec,
Intrusion,
The Mojo Men,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Second Layer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Duran Duran,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Flash Fearless,
Eden Ahbez,
The Smoke,
The Fall,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sound Behaviour,
Country Teasers,
Wire,
Deepchord,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jeff Lynne,
Slick Rick,
Inner City,
cv313,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marvin Gaye,
Cameo,
The Count Five,
EPMD,
Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
These Immortal Souls,
The Star Department,
Rod Modell,
The Birthday Party,
Hardrive,
The Electric Prunes,
Groovy Waters,
Sight & Sound,
Colin Newman,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric Copeland,
Siglo XX,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Japan,
Livin' Joy,
The Blackbyrds,
Magazine,
Reuben Wilson,
Henry Cow,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sam Rivers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sällskapet,
Basic Channel,
One Last Wish,
Davy DMX,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.