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 Japan and from Columbus.
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 Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Metal Thangz to the electroclash 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Eurythmics,
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
R.M.O.,
Albert Ayler,
The Techniques,
Parry Music,
The American Breed,
Popol Vuh,
Faust,
Deadbeat,
Michelle Simonal,
Mad Mike,
Arab on Radar,
Chris Corsano,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flamin' Groovies,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lindisfarne,
The Names,
Funkadelic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Godley & Creme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantaleimon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fatback Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lakeside,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Echospace,
Country Teasers,
The Monks,
Groovy Waters,
John Cale,
Cameo,
Danielle Patucci,
Sex Pistols,
K-Klass,
Visage,
Roxette,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultravox,
Leonard Cohen,
Inner City,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Fortunes,
Rod Modell,
Porter Ricks,
The Invisible,
Audionom,
Con Funk Shun,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Barracudas,
Monks,
Scientists,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.