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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ossler to the disco 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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
The Monochrome Set,
Soft Cell,
Brand Nubian,
La Düsseldorf,
Stereo Dub,
Terry Callier,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Evens,
Eli Mardock,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scan 7,
Monks,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fall,
Los Fastidios,
Depeche Mode,
Rites of Spring,
Q and Not U,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang Green,
Colin Newman,
The Grass Roots,
Mad Mike,
Prince Buster,
Severed Heads,
Quantec,
Fela Kuti,
The Angels of Light,
Stetsasonic,
Dead Boys,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bronski Beat,
Zero Boys,
The Slits,
Marvin Gaye,
The Golliwogs,
Pantaleimon,
Lower 48,
Joyce Sims,
The Raincoats,
Smog,
New Age Steppers,
Tres Demented,
Chris & Cosey,
The Motions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joe Finger,
Monolake,
Faraquet,
Alison Limerick,
Accadde A,
the Swans,
Boredoms,
Wings,
The Cramps,
Scratch Acid,
DNA,
Zapp,
Eddi Front,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.