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 Nigeria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mark Hollis to the dance 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Jacob Miller,
Boredoms,
Parry Music,
Khruangbin,
The Grass Roots,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Michelle Simonal,
Eddi Front,
Half Japanese,
Patti Smith,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Saints,
Moss Icon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joe Finger,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Janne Schatter,
Funkadelic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eli Mardock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bill Near,
Infiniti,
The Pop Group,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Circle Jerks,
Magazine,
Sandy B,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Popol Vuh,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare,
The Index,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jerry's Kids,
The Motions,
Rapeman,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fugs,
The Remains,
Neu!,
Black Moon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Drexciya,
Schoolly D,
Severed Heads,
the Soft Cell,
Lucky Dragons,
Roxette,
Sugar Minott,
Audionom,
Sister Nancy,
Rites of Spring,
Scion,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Flesh Eaters,
David McCallum,
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.