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 Panama and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Sister Nancy to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
The Blackbyrds,
Deadbeat,
Slave,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soft Cell,
Anthony Braxton,
Procol Harum,
E-Dancer,
Joe Smooth,
Pole,
Electric Prunes,
The Fall,
Franke,
Isaac Hayes,
Fatback Band,
Kas Product,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dual Sessions,
Minor Threat,
James White and The Blacks,
Skarface,
Neu!,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rapeman,
Q and Not U,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Skatalites,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Babytalk,
Albert Ayler,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fluxion,
T.S.O.L.,
Metal Thangz,
Black Flag,
The Sound,
DNA,
ABBA,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Radio Birdman,
MDC,
Brass Construction,
Reuben Wilson,
Avey Tare,
Essential Logic,
Fat Boys,
The Invisible,
The Birthday Party,
Harry Pussy,
The Moleskins,
Morten Harket,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
F. McDonald,
Rekid,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.