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 Iran and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 Johnny Clarke to the funk 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kas Product,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Mummies,
Donny Hathaway,
Television Personalities,
Rotary Connection,
Warsaw,
New Age Steppers,
Cheater Slicks,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Young Rascals,
The Saints,
Sparks,
Gang of Four,
AZ,
Anthony Braxton,
The Zeros,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marine Girls,
Von Mondo,
The Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
Rosa Yemen,
Soulsonic Force,
Minor Threat,
Youth Brigade,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pantaleimon,
Camouflage,
Absolute Body Control,
Joensuu 1685,
Scientists,
Neu!,
Pagans,
Fugazi,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultra Naté,
Sister Nancy,
Clear Light,
Oblivians,
Joey Negro,
Maurizio,
Black Flag,
John Lydon,
Patti Smith,
Slick Rick,
The Kinks,
The Names,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wire,
Jeff Lynne,
Simply Red,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bobby Womack,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.