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 Chile and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Wolf Eyes to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
The Saints,
K-Klass,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dead C,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bluetip,
Bob Dylan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Outsiders,
Sugar Minott,
Yusef Lateef,
Sun City Girls,
Suicide,
Alice Coltrane,
Minny Pops,
One Last Wish,
The Modern Lovers,
Bad Manners,
Franke,
The Associates,
Black Bananas,
Talk Talk,
Sam Rivers,
Barbara Tucker,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Newcleus,
Eddi Front,
The Cosmic Jokers,
John Lydon,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Slackers,
Popol Vuh,
Radiopuhelimet,
Maleditus Sound,
The Litter,
Slave,
Roy Ayers,
Charles Mingus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ponytail,
Cheater Slicks,
Pierre Henry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Don Cherry,
Arcadia,
Sonic Youth,
Guru Guru,
Stockholm Monsters,
Country Teasers,
Howard Jones,
Buzzcocks,
In Retrospect,
Groovy Waters,
Accadde A,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gun Club,
The Skatalites,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.