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 Nicaragua and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Dead Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
New Age Steppers,
Schoolly D,
Groovy Waters,
The Monks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Motions,
In Retrospect,
Rotary Connection,
The Five Americans,
The Moleskins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Boz Scaggs,
Kaleidoscope,
Television Personalities,
Masters at Work,
Scientists,
Magazine,
Stetsasonic,
Tomorrow,
Bobby Byrd,
ABBA,
Roxette,
Dave Gahan,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yaz,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yazoo,
D'Angelo,
Magma,
Derrick May,
The Trojans,
Das Ding,
cv313,
Zero Boys,
Skaos,
DNA,
Chris Corsano,
Gang Starr,
Kayak,
The Mojo Men,
Y Pants,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Accadde A,
Faust,
Au Pairs,
The Modern Lovers,
Quando Quango,
One Last Wish,
The Birthday Party,
June of 44,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ten City,
Camouflage,
The Names,
Nik Kershaw,
Glambeats Corp.,
Model 500,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.