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 United States and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Lee Hazlewood to the rap 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee 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?
Siglo XX,
Quantec,
Laurel Aitken,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Star Department,
Rekid,
Eden Ahbez,
Circle Jerks,
Heaven 17,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sandy B,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Real Kids,
The Vogues,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nation of Ulysses,
Susan Cadogan,
Stereo Dub,
AZ,
Black Bananas,
Hardrive,
Throbbing Gristle,
Flash Fearless,
FM Einheit,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Icehouse,
Scratch Acid,
Dawn Penn,
Franke,
Skarface,
The Seeds,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MDC,
Graham Central Station,
The Mummies,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
The Busters,
Dave Gahan,
Liliput,
Byron Stingily,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wally Richardson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Young Rascals,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Maurizio,
Slave,
Pantytec,
Spoonie Gee,
Johnny Osbourne,
Howard Jones,
Electric Prunes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
R.M.O.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Amon Düül II,
Fear,
The Dirtbombs,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.