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 China and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Amon Düül to the electroclash 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers 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?
kango's stein massive,
The Standells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Flesh Eaters,
Echospace,
Black Bananas,
This Heat,
Suburban Knight,
Ituana,
Second Layer,
Faraquet,
Kerri Chandler,
Depeche Mode,
The Offenders,
Urselle,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Royal Trux,
Model 500,
Visage,
Albert Ayler,
Sarah Menescal,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soft Machine,
Yazoo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ken Boothe,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Swell Maps,
Stetsasonic,
The Evens,
David Axelrod,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mo-Dettes,
Bluetip,
The Blues Magoos,
Organ,
Funkadelic,
Mary Jane Girls,
ABC,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camberwell Now,
The Victims,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pagans,
Derrick May,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter and Kerry,
Basic Channel,
Moebius,
Young Marble Giants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pere Ubu,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Interpol,
Saccharine Trust,
June of 44,
In Retrospect,
Quadrant,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.