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 Honduras and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 Dave Gahan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Kerrie Biddell,
L. Decosne,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Motions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sun Ra,
The Buckinghams,
Darondo,
Rekid,
Grauzone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aaron Thompson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barbara Tucker,
Easy Going,
Can,
Henry Cow,
The Grass Roots,
OOIOO,
Bad Manners,
The Golliwogs,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sonics,
Bauhaus,
Whodini,
Glenn Branca,
Hot Snakes,
Ultravox,
Slave,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fugazi,
Wally Richardson,
Electric Prunes,
Essential Logic,
Lindisfarne,
Marmalade,
Yusef Lateef,
The Monks,
Stiv Bators,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arab on Radar,
ABBA,
Derrick Morgan,
The Offenders,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Warsaw,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oneida,
Make Up,
Arthur Verocai,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
World's Most,
The Monochrome Set,
Tears for Fears,
Popol Vuh,
David McCallum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.