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 Pakistan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 clarinet 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 The Residents to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Davy DMX,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Birthday Party,
Magazine,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Techniques,
Joy Division,
Nik Kershaw,
Wings,
Q and Not U,
Sexual Harrassment,
cv313,
Von Mondo,
Max Romeo,
Royal Trux,
Peter and Kerry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Slick Rick,
June Days,
Technova,
Soft Cell,
The Zeros,
DJ Style,
The Neon Judgement,
Infiniti,
China Crisis,
Television,
Minny Pops,
John Cale,
CMW,
Zero Boys,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Avey Tare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doobie Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Section 25,
B.T. Express,
Jerry's Kids,
Scan 7,
Janne Schatter,
The Selecter,
Tomorrow,
The Evens,
Crispian St. Peters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mo-Dettes,
Radiohead,
The Trojans,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fat Boys,
Goldenarms,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Simply Red,
Das Ding,
Monks,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.