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 Libya and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Newcleus to the electroclash 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
The Beau Brummels,
In Retrospect,
Kerri Chandler,
Jandek,
Fear,
World's Most,
Yusef Lateef,
Blake Baxter,
Deadbeat,
Chris Corsano,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Wake,
a-ha,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tim Buckley,
MC5,
Matthew Bourne,
Skriet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Faraquet,
The Saints,
Excepter,
Deakin,
D'Angelo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Funkadelic,
Soul II Soul,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Chrome,
Eric Dolphy,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Happenings,
the Swans,
Lucky Dragons,
Danielle Patucci,
Barry Ungar,
Basic Channel,
Can,
John Holt,
R.M.O.,
Public Image Ltd.,
Junior Murvin,
The Music Machine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Raincoats,
Roger Hodgson,
Erykah Badu,
OOIOO,
Schoolly D,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Magma,
Sarah Menescal,
Prince Buster,
Andrew Hill,
Outsiders,
MDC,
Jacques Brel,
The Buckinghams,
Spoonie Gee,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.