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 Serbia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Brand Nubian to the disco 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Nils Olav,
The Residents,
Basic Channel,
Nick Fraelich,
Buzzcocks,
Erasure,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Bar-Kays,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Pop Group,
Lakeside,
Wings,
The Names,
Marmalade,
Motorama,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Sonics,
Ice-T,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stiv Bators,
Eric Copeland,
Khruangbin,
New Age Steppers,
Circle Jerks,
Junior Murvin,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cowsills,
Niagra,
Intrusion,
Sällskapet,
Section 25,
Skarface,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bush Tetras,
DNA,
U.S. Maple,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Thompson Twins,
Minny Pops,
Absolute Body Control,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pagans,
Symarip,
Goldenarms,
Dark Day,
Visage,
Freddie Wadling,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nico,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Golliwogs,
The Cure,
Al Stewart,
Index,
Hardrive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Bananas,
cv313,
The Techniques,
Scientists,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.