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 Luxembourg and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Tom Boy to the electroclash 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
The Evens,
Chris & Cosey,
The Index,
Saccharine Trust,
cv313,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tres Demented,
Fugazi,
The Golliwogs,
Neil Young,
Accadde A,
Grey Daturas,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fuzztones,
Whodini,
CMW,
Aural Exciters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Surgeon,
Joe Smooth,
Minutemen,
The Divine Comedy,
the Swans,
Reuben Wilson,
Minnie Riperton,
Todd Terry,
The Busters,
Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
John Coltrane,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeru the Damaja,
Al Stewart,
Wire,
Barrington Levy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ossler,
Neu!,
Freddie Wadling,
The Human League,
Matthew Halsall,
Susan Cadogan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anthony Braxton,
Silicon Teens,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Unrelated Segments,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
Parry Music,
Oblivians,
Q and Not U,
Pantaleimon,
Sandy B,
ABC,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Blake Baxter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yusef Lateef,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.