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 Russia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Aloha Tigers to the electroclash 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Infiniti,
Pagans,
Minny Pops,
Crooked Eye,
Ohio Players,
the Human League,
Magazine,
The Invisible,
Von Mondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Minor Threat,
Thompson Twins,
Ponytail,
Grey Daturas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roy Ayers,
Quando Quango,
The Music Machine,
Gabor Szabo,
June Days,
Au Pairs,
MDC,
The Motions,
Model 500,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Toasters,
The Barracudas,
Fad Gadget,
Wally Richardson,
Lungfish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television,
Sight & Sound,
The Real Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Can,
The Blues Magoos,
The Dead C,
The Slits,
Nik Kershaw,
Robert Görl,
Minutemen,
Make Up,
Ronan,
Joe Finger,
The Fugs,
Crash Course in Science,
Main Source,
Sex Pistols,
Gang Green,
Ken Boothe,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wasted Youth,
New York Dolls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.