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 Suriname and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jandek to the punk 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Erasure,
Schoolly D,
Circle Jerks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joensuu 1685,
Malaria!,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tears for Fears,
Slick Rick,
Gong,
Yaz,
H. Thieme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Desert Stars,
Magazine,
Pierre Henry,
Stereo Dub,
The Slackers,
MDC,
The Shadows of Knight,
Laurel Aitken,
Traffic Nightmare,
Avey Tare,
La Düsseldorf,
Alison Limerick,
Camberwell Now,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Swell Maps,
Wire,
Wings,
Ludus,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fire Engines,
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Young Marble Giants,
Underground Resistance,
Tim Buckley,
Eric Copeland,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Newcleus,
Amazonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Saccharine Trust,
Gregory Isaacs,
Interpol,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dead Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Talk Talk,
Lou Christie,
Aural Exciters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Fortunes,
Tommy Roe,
Cybotron,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Doors,
The Victims,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.