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 Ivory Coast and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the rap 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
The Happenings,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Niagra,
Peter & Gordon,
Suburban Knight,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Shoche,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Intrusion,
New Order,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
Throbbing Gristle,
Terry Callier,
Dead Boys,
Magma,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brass Construction,
Kenny Larkin,
Moby Grape,
The Fall,
Nik Kershaw,
Johnny Clarke,
The Residents,
Accadde A,
the Swans,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Associates,
Dual Sessions,
OOIOO,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
James White and The Blacks,
Metal Thangz,
Flash Fearless,
Boogie Down Productions,
Erykah Badu,
Los Fastidios,
ABC,
Lungfish,
Crime,
Clear Light,
Althea and Donna,
Morten Harket,
Motorama,
H. Thieme,
Qualms,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Al Stewart,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Sheep,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Organ,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.