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 Germany and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Bauhaus to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi 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?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
the Association,
The Black Dice,
Minor Threat,
Alton Ellis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marvin Gaye,
the Germs,
Excepter,
Arab on Radar,
U.S. Maple,
Outsiders,
The Mummies,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pantaleimon,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Pretty Things,
Cluster,
Urselle,
Junior Murvin,
Cheater Slicks,
Liliput,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Section 25,
Rakim,
Bill Near,
Nico,
Slave,
Juan Atkins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharoah Sanders,
PIL,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Connie Case,
a-ha,
New York Dolls,
The Index,
Prince Buster,
The Zeros,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Walker Brothers,
Flipper,
Jacob Miller,
The Victims,
Eurythmics,
Adolescents,
MDC,
The Associates,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fugs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scan 7,
James White and The Blacks,
The Invisible,
Moebius,
Robert Wyatt,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.