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 Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar 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 Flag to the dance 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Mandrill,
Man Parrish,
Dennis Brown,
Tomorrow,
Altered Images,
The Standells,
One Last Wish,
Lalann,
The Smoke,
The Sisters of Mercy,
T.S.O.L.,
Lindisfarne,
EPMD,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ludus,
Charles Mingus,
David McCallum,
Michelle Simonal,
PIL,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The J.B.'s,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Skaos,
New York Dolls,
Chrome,
Crash Course in Science,
Deepchord,
Arcadia,
Ornette Coleman,
The Associates,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Zapp,
Shuggie Otis,
Pylon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brick,
Todd Rundgren,
Rekid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Von Mondo,
Slick Rick,
Pagans,
Rakim,
Al Stewart,
The Remains,
The Neon Judgement,
Morten Harket,
Alphaville,
The Dave Clark Five,
In Retrospect,
Eric Dolphy,
Cameo,
the Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Matthew Halsall,
The Velvet Underground,
Minor Threat,
Althea and Donna,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.