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 Germany and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Doobie Brothers to the rock 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Tres Demented,
Soulsonic Force,
Boredoms,
Freddie Wadling,
Nils Olav,
Dead Boys,
Sarah Menescal,
Silicon Teens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Byron Stingily,
Toni Rubio,
Au Pairs,
Robert Görl,
Faraquet,
Thompson Twins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Anthony Braxton,
John Foxx,
Alison Limerick,
Cheater Slicks,
Lightning Bolt,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
CMW,
Michelle Simonal,
Sonic Youth,
UT,
Shuggie Otis,
The Durutti Column,
The Grass Roots,
Soul Sonic Force,
Underground Resistance,
Scott Walker,
Royal Trux,
Man Parrish,
Neu!,
Kerri Chandler,
Bronski Beat,
Flipper,
The Real Kids,
Masters at Work,
Fugazi,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Prince Buster,
Essential Logic,
ABC,
Pussy Galore,
The Slits,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The American Breed,
Mantronix,
Faust,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
Symarip,
Quantec,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crooked Eye,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.