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 Bhutan and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 clarinet 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 The Young Rascals to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a theremin 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 sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Bush Tetras,
Delon & Dalcan,
Adolescents,
In Retrospect,
Organ,
La Düsseldorf,
Buzzcocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Stooges,
Metal Thangz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ohio Players,
The Slackers,
Tomorrow,
New Order,
Television,
F. McDonald,
Donald Byrd,
China Crisis,
X-Ray Spex,
The Blackbyrds,
EPMD,
DJ Sneak,
Lightning Bolt,
The Monochrome Set,
Drive Like Jehu,
Japan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gerry Rafferty,
Neu!,
Ken Boothe,
One Last Wish,
Funkadelic,
kango's stein massive,
Arab on Radar,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Peter & Gordon,
Absolute Body Control,
Bluetip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
The Real Kids,
The Gun Club,
Cheater Slicks,
New York Dolls,
Marc Almond,
The Dead C,
Moby Grape,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deepchord,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Maurizio,
Agent Orange,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lebanon Hanover,
PIL,
the Swans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.