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 Netherlands and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Mary Jane Girls to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Offenders,
Skaos,
the Association,
EPMD,
The Happenings,
The Divine Comedy,
Mandrill,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cluster,
Blancmange,
Panda Bear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moleskins,
Sister Nancy,
Average White Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Duran Duran,
Marine Girls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Electric Prunes,
Smog,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jawbox,
Country Joe & The Fish,
UT,
Excepter,
Chris & Cosey,
Animal Collective,
Scrapy,
Rites of Spring,
Television,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gang Gang Dance,
DNA,
Intrusion,
The Cowsills,
Fifty Foot Hose,
David McCallum,
Goldenarms,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Liliput,
Josef K,
Anthony Braxton,
Donald Byrd,
Marmalade,
Freddie Wadling,
Peter & Gordon,
Vladislav Delay,
Surgeon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Boredoms,
K-Klass,
Dual Sessions,
Whodini,
the Human League,
Quando Quango,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.