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 Kyrgyzstan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Kinks to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eve St. Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Desert Stars,
kango's stein massive,
Leonard Cohen,
Fela Kuti,
Jerry's Kids,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Laurel Aitken,
The Dirtbombs,
Peter and Kerry,
Rapeman,
Judy Mowatt,
ABBA,
Wolf Eyes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül,
The United States of America,
Brand Nubian,
The Names,
Young Marble Giants,
Gabor Szabo,
The Birthday Party,
Magazine,
Flipper,
Bad Manners,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cal Tjader,
Stiv Bators,
Main Source,
The Young Rascals,
U.S. Maple,
The Martian,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eurythmics,
Siglo XX,
Ludus,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Moleskins,
The Tremeloes,
Simply Red,
Dead Boys,
Stereo Dub,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Easy Going,
Dawn Penn,
Kurtis Blow,
Unwound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kerrie Biddell,
Liliput,
Qualms,
Alton Ellis,
Y Pants,
Vladislav Delay,
Fugazi,
Lightning Bolt,
The Vogues,
Soft Machine,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.