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 Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 H. Thieme to the grunge 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 The Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ornette Coleman,
The Birthday Party,
The Associates,
Glenn Branca,
DNA,
Thompson Twins,
Section 25,
Max Romeo,
Crime,
Animal Collective,
Radiohead,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Anakelly,
Kayak,
The Fuzztones,
Erykah Badu,
Iggy Pop,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Residents,
Dead Boys,
Echospace,
Harmonia,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Velvet Underground,
Deadbeat,
Oblivians,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Monolake,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare,
Delta 5,
Angry Samoans,
Patti Smith,
Guru Guru,
JFA,
The Techniques,
Gang of Four,
Television,
Mission of Burma,
Cecil Taylor,
Marine Girls,
The Young Rascals,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Slits,
Cluster,
Porter Ricks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lou Reed,
Arab on Radar,
Loose Ends,
Roger Hodgson,
Freddie Wadling,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kerri Chandler,
Circle Jerks,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.