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 Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Scan 7,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bill Wells,
Unwound,
Mo-Dettes,
Sun Ra,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultra Naté,
Peter and Kerry,
Accadde A,
Sun City Girls,
David Axelrod,
Das Ding,
Max Romeo,
Public Enemy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Black Flag,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
H. Thieme,
Adolescents,
Stereo Dub,
Aural Exciters,
Lyres,
Scrapy,
Barbara Tucker,
Traffic Nightmare,
Patti Smith,
Camouflage,
Jandek,
Byron Stingily,
Lalann,
Youth Brigade,
Little Man,
Rites of Spring,
The Real Kids,
Scientists,
Gastr Del Sol,
Inner City,
The Smoke,
Jacques Brel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Evens,
Donny Hathaway,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Names,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Funkadelic,
Soft Cell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joey Negro,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fear,
John Foxx,
In Retrospect,
Japan,
Gang Green,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.