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 Brunei and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Monochrome Set to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Sex Pistols,
The Slackers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joy Division,
Cymande,
Archie Shepp,
Franke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Donald Byrd,
This Heat,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Buzzcocks,
Model 500,
Moby Grape,
Das Ding,
Anakelly,
The American Breed,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Five Americans,
Massinfluence,
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dennis Brown,
Boredoms,
Eurythmics,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Happenings,
The Dirtbombs,
Flash Fearless,
Pulsallama,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gories,
Heaven 17,
Joe Smooth,
The Fire Engines,
Carl Craig,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Unwound,
Scott Walker,
The Index,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Beau Brummels,
The Young Rascals,
the Slits,
The New Christs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sight & Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kayak,
Steve Hackett,
Absolute Body Control,
The Offenders,
The Associates,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Dead C,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Wings,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.