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 Swaziland and from Sao Paulo.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Sonic Youth to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
cv313,
Dave Gahan,
Kayak,
Nico,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
The Modern Lovers,
Arcadia,
Talk Talk,
Saccharine Trust,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Iggy Pop,
the Association,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Cale,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glenn Branca,
James White and The Blacks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skaos,
Derrick Morgan,
Charles Mingus,
The American Breed,
Brand Nubian,
Alice Coltrane,
The Tremeloes,
Darondo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camberwell Now,
Pussy Galore,
Newcleus,
Brick,
Wolf Eyes,
Smog,
Monolake,
Severed Heads,
Lalann,
Crash Course in Science,
The Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
The Index,
The Doors,
Ohio Players,
Byron Stingily,
Suicide,
Los Fastidios,
The Fortunes,
The Associates,
The Star Department,
The Five Americans,
The Gories,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dark Day,
The Buckinghams,
Black Bananas,
The Dirtbombs,
Eve St. Jones,
the Sonics,
Schoolly D,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.