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 Kuwait and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Kerri Chandler,
Soft Cell,
R.M.O.,
Delta 5,
Dark Day,
June Days,
Grauzone,
The Litter,
the Swans,
Scientists,
Sex Pistols,
Y Pants,
Gang Green,
New Age Steppers,
Metal Thangz,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The United States of America,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warren Ellis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sight & Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Maurizio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hot Snakes,
Aaron Thompson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kurtis Blow,
Outsiders,
Albert Ayler,
Gichy Dan,
Buzzcocks,
Joey Negro,
Ronnie Foster,
Scion,
Kenny Larkin,
Loose Ends,
Ludus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mad Mike,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sällskapet,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Human League,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Machine,
AZ,
Crispy Ambulance,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Vainqueur,
Rod Modell,
Yellowson,
The Cramps,
Livin' Joy,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.