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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Sheep to the punk 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Pere Ubu,
Niagra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scrapy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Happenings,
Alton Ellis,
Bronski Beat,
JFA,
Marshall Jefferson,
Arthur Verocai,
Lakeside,
The Victims,
Moss Icon,
The Saints,
Lou Reed,
Country Teasers,
The Moleskins,
The Divine Comedy,
Jeff Lynne,
Funky Four + One,
Flash Fearless,
Urselle,
Wasted Youth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bobby Sherman,
Robert Hood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Shadows of Knight,
MDC,
LL Cool J,
Barry Ungar,
10cc,
Nas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Erasure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Grass Roots,
Drive Like Jehu,
DNA,
Masters at Work,
the Swans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
K-Klass,
Blossom Toes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Maurizio,
The Wake,
Blancmange,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Bananas,
Joensuu 1685,
Mr. Review,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oneida,
Gang Green,
Swans,
John Holt,
Section 25,
The Mojo Men,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.