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 Papua New Guinea and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Slave to the dance 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Smog,
Rosa Yemen,
The Flesh Eaters,
Goldenarms,
Scion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Fugs,
Junior Murvin,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang of Four,
Michelle Simonal,
Technova,
cv313,
The Dead C,
Minnie Riperton,
Q65,
Dark Day,
John Coltrane,
Eric Dolphy,
Barrington Levy,
Joy Division,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Evens,
Pagans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tubeway Army,
Harmonia,
Ponytail,
Ohio Players,
Idris Muhammad,
Au Pairs,
Hasil Adkins,
Janne Schatter,
Roy Ayers,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
OOIOO,
Bronski Beat,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Scan 7,
Wolf Eyes,
Babytalk,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Germs,
Wire,
UT,
Pere Ubu,
Lightning Bolt,
The Velvet Underground,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
The Associates,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skarface,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.