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 Mali and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joyce Sims to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Zero Boys,
Qualms,
The Residents,
Television Personalities,
Niagra,
MC5,
Brick,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Red Krayola,
Rod Modell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Siglo XX,
The Dead C,
Rites of Spring,
Thompson Twins,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sandy B,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funky Four + One,
Nils Olav,
Zapp,
Junior Murvin,
Brothers Johnson,
Lalann,
Sex Pistols,
Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
Glambeats Corp.,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Ituana,
Kerri Chandler,
Dave Gahan,
Young Marble Giants,
Das Ding,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Warren Ellis,
Peter & Gordon,
The Alarm Clocks,
X-Ray Spex,
Second Layer,
Guru Guru,
Ronan,
Connie Case,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Half Japanese,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Juan Atkins,
The Standells,
Livin' Joy,
Charles Mingus,
The Smiths,
Bad Manners,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Fall,
Sparks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fugazi,
The Remains,
Susan Cadogan,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.