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 Russia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Rapeman to the punk 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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sister Nancy,
the Germs,
Khruangbin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eurythmics,
The Mummies,
The American Breed,
Patti Smith,
Monolake,
the Human League,
New York Dolls,
Alton Ellis,
The Gap Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Sherman,
Tropical Tobacco,
Masters at Work,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hashim,
Essential Logic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dead Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Oblivians,
The Detroit Cobras,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
CMW,
The Stooges,
Grauzone,
Delon & Dalcan,
Piero Umiliani,
Ornette Coleman,
Michelle Simonal,
Cluster,
The Dead C,
Max Romeo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Albert Ayler,
Janne Schatter,
The Trojans,
Lower 48,
The Golliwogs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed,
Camouflage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rhythm & Sound,
Second Layer,
MDC,
The Offenders,
Public Image Ltd.,
Skarface,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Newcleus,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.