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 Malawi and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 United States of America to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Los Fastidios,
Stiv Bators,
CMW,
The Seeds,
Aaron Thompson,
Hardrive,
Junior Murvin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Steve Hackett,
The J.B.'s,
Half Japanese,
Letta Mbulu,
Idris Muhammad,
The Detroit Cobras,
This Heat,
Duran Duran,
Johnny Clarke,
Interpol,
Lou Reed,
Joensuu 1685,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bad Manners,
Althea and Donna,
Carl Craig,
Donny Hathaway,
Morten Harket,
Guru Guru,
China Crisis,
John Coltrane,
The New Christs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Supertramp,
June Days,
Michelle Simonal,
Man Eating Sloth,
Andrew Hill,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lucky Dragons,
Brothers Johnson,
Quantec,
Rod Modell,
Unrelated Segments,
Lightning Bolt,
Sister Nancy,
Simply Red,
Susan Cadogan,
Panda Bear,
Organ,
Moby Grape,
OOIOO,
Fear,
Excepter,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ronnie Foster,
Buzzcocks,
Reagan Youth,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.