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 Tajikistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Slackers to the jazz 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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
These Immortal Souls,
The Associates,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Modern Lovers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Adolescents,
Radiohead,
The Beau Brummels,
Sugar Minott,
The Dirtbombs,
The American Breed,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Pretty Things,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scrapy,
10cc,
Skarface,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Gories,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roy Ayers,
Mandrill,
Rotary Connection,
Dead Boys,
ABBA,
Arcadia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Man Parrish,
Drexciya,
Bronski Beat,
Funky Four + One,
Cecil Taylor,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ludus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Judy Mowatt,
Pantaleimon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marcia Griffiths,
John Holt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerri Chandler,
Fat Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Ultimate Spinach,
Faust,
The Flesh Eaters,
Michelle Simonal,
Heaven 17,
Jacques Brel,
The Angels of Light,
Television Personalities,
Public Enemy,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.