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 Norway and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Seeds to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
The Zeros,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Associates,
James White and The Blacks,
Bill Wells,
Nico,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marcia Griffiths,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Surgeon,
Cluster,
Lakeside,
Marshall Jefferson,
The United States of America,
Funkadelic,
Boredoms,
The Saints,
Mars,
The Moody Blues,
Sight & Sound,
Neu!,
Fluxion,
Iggy Pop,
Public Image Ltd.,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
R.M.O.,
Minny Pops,
Marc Almond,
Fela Kuti,
Magma,
Eddi Front,
Japan,
Fugazi,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grey Daturas,
Sällskapet,
Roger Hodgson,
The Beau Brummels,
the Germs,
Spandau Ballet,
The Cramps,
Kayak,
Lindisfarne,
Lebanon Hanover,
The J.B.'s,
Harmonia,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sex Pistols,
The Raincoats,
Pierre Henry,
Royal Trux,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Model 500,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Essential Logic,
Wolf Eyes,
Sound Behaviour,
Archie Shepp,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.