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 Japan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 Jawbox to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Altered Images,
The Invisible,
Organ,
Oblivians,
Angry Samoans,
Flipper,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jeff Lynne,
Easy Going,
X-101,
The Litter,
Babytalk,
Accadde A,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Zeros,
Yaz,
Desert Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Slave,
Wings,
Cluster,
Rosa Yemen,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jerry's Kids,
China Crisis,
Dead Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Sonics,
Scratch Acid,
Eve St. Jones,
New Age Steppers,
The Sound,
Goldenarms,
Con Funk Shun,
Toni Rubio,
The Techniques,
The Names,
This Heat,
Wolf Eyes,
The Searchers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Grauzone,
Q65,
a-ha,
The Blackbyrds,
Kas Product,
Isaac Hayes,
Moebius,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soft Cell,
The Fortunes,
Deakin,
Sällskapet,
Magma,
Archie Shepp,
Tommy Roe,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.