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 France and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Model 500,
Wally Richardson,
Kaleidoscope,
Urselle,
The Blackbyrds,
Index,
Freddie Wadling,
Minor Threat,
Lyres,
Shoche,
Crispy Ambulance,
Moebius,
Drexciya,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tim Buckley,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spandau Ballet,
David McCallum,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joe Smooth,
D'Angelo,
Erasure,
Franke,
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
PIL,
Letta Mbulu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Zero Boys,
Basic Channel,
Isaac Hayes,
Sixth Finger,
The Fortunes,
The Golliwogs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Evens,
Severed Heads,
Barry Ungar,
The Vogues,
Flipper,
K-Klass,
Loose Ends,
The Walker Brothers,
Mark Hollis,
Chris Corsano,
Cheater Slicks,
This Heat,
These Immortal Souls,
Barrington Levy,
Al Stewart,
Ten City,
Make Up,
Joy Division,
Outsiders,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marc Almond,
Pylon,
the Slits,
FM Einheit,
Brothers Johnson,
Sugar Minott,
The Residents,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.