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 Ghana and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Bob Dylan to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Rotary Connection,
Boredoms,
Deepchord,
David Axelrod,
Average White Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fela Kuti,
Nik Kershaw,
The Barracudas,
Lucky Dragons,
Television Personalities,
Radiopuhelimet,
Siglo XX,
Susan Cadogan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Moon,
Gichy Dan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Arab on Radar,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marine Girls,
cv313,
New Order,
Michelle Simonal,
the Slits,
Swell Maps,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Albert Ayler,
Newcleus,
China Crisis,
Bauhaus,
The Black Dice,
Banda Bassotti,
Interpol,
The Moleskins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amon Düül,
OOIOO,
Essential Logic,
Black Flag,
The Slits,
Tommy Roe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nils Olav,
In Retrospect,
The Cramps,
Con Funk Shun,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Cowsills,
Ice-T,
Jandek,
Erykah Badu,
MDC,
Gastr Del Sol,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.