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 Laos and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wings to the dance 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Electric Prunes,
The Human League,
Chris Corsano,
Connie Case,
Country Teasers,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Moebius,
Davy DMX,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
Kenny Larkin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ohio Players,
Charles Mingus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Black Dice,
Barry Ungar,
Shuggie Otis,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sly & The Family Stone,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Arthur Verocai,
Morten Harket,
Infiniti,
Nico,
The Residents,
Tomorrow,
Zero Boys,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dave Gahan,
James White and The Blacks,
Magma,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobby Sherman,
Patti Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Roxy Music,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joe Smooth,
John Foxx,
T. Rex,
Simply Red,
DJ Style,
Icehouse,
Eurythmics,
Zapp,
Skaos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rod Modell,
Sparks,
Funky Four + One,
The Mummies,
Altered Images,
Rufus Thomas,
Heaven 17,
Joey Negro,
Tres Demented,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.