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 Spain and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Remains to the electroclash 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Roxy Music,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
One Last Wish,
Black Flag,
Bill Near,
Scan 7,
The J.B.'s,
Scrapy,
Roxette,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
ABC,
X-Ray Spex,
Eden Ahbez,
Technova,
Rod Modell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
kango's stein massive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Erasure,
Make Up,
Severed Heads,
The Alarm Clocks,
David Bowie,
Ultravox,
Dave Gahan,
Peter & Gordon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Raincoats,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crime,
Stiv Bators,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eurythmics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Babytalk,
the Sonics,
Marmalade,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Wyatt,
Porter Ricks,
Steve Hackett,
Ornette Coleman,
Bush Tetras,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bronski Beat,
Scion,
Quantec,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Outsiders,
The Stooges,
Pulsallama,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sixth Finger,
Jimmy McGriff,
Reagan Youth,
Vainqueur,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rapeman,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.