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 Honduras and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 China Crisis to the techno 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mark Hollis,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Flag,
The J.B.'s,
Loose Ends,
One Last Wish,
Gabor Szabo,
John Holt,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Tres Demented,
Bootsy Collins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc.,
cv313,
Minutemen,
Patti Smith,
Ronan,
The Slackers,
Scratch Acid,
PIL,
Deadbeat,
The Skatalites,
Los Fastidios,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alton Ellis,
Eddi Front,
kango's stein massive,
Flipper,
Dave Gahan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Skarface,
Severed Heads,
UT,
Echospace,
Yellowson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Surgeon,
Moss Icon,
Ice-T,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sun Ra,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moby Grape,
the Normal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
Chris & Cosey,
Oneida,
Scan 7,
Dennis Brown,
Byron Stingily,
X-102,
Grey Daturas,
John Coltrane,
Ten City,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.