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 Malta and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Hasil Adkins to the dance 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Mission of Burma,
The Mummies,
Audionom,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Silicon Teens,
The Buckinghams,
Depeche Mode,
Nation of Ulysses,
Infiniti,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Durutti Column,
One Last Wish,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Beau Brummels,
Connie Case,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bronski Beat,
Tres Demented,
Half Japanese,
The Young Rascals,
Isaac Hayes,
Trumans Water,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maurizio,
Brothers Johnson,
Nico,
Shuggie Otis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gabor Szabo,
Quadrant,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lindisfarne,
Ultravox,
Johnny Clarke,
8 Eyed Spy,
Godley & Creme,
Technova,
Derrick May,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Five Americans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tears for Fears,
Stiv Bators,
Zero Boys,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Donald Byrd,
Swell Maps,
Flash Fearless,
the Soft Cell,
Porter Ricks,
Thompson Twins,
Urselle,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.