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 Kuwait and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Black Flag 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Reagan Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harmonia,
Ultravox,
The Barracudas,
Niagra,
The American Breed,
Barrington Levy,
B.T. Express,
Smog,
R.M.O.,
Davy DMX,
Pussy Galore,
Scrapy,
Banda Bassotti,
Jimmy McGriff,
Negative Approach,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Curtis Mayfield,
PIL,
The Monks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Arthur Verocai,
Piero Umiliani,
CMW,
the Normal,
The Raincoats,
The Offenders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unrelated Segments,
Radio Birdman,
Sparks,
The Star Department,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roger Hodgson,
Aural Exciters,
The New Christs,
Janne Schatter,
Sandy B,
Prince Buster,
The Red Krayola,
KRS-One,
The Wake,
Alphaville,
The Zeros,
The Moody Blues,
James White and The Blacks,
Dead Boys,
Marmalade,
These Immortal Souls,
Kenny Larkin,
John Lydon,
Joensuu 1685,
Soul Sonic Force,
Massinfluence,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.