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 Kenya and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flipper to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Henry Cow,
Lucky Dragons,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ronnie Foster,
The Human League,
Bobby Womack,
The Gun Club,
Letta Mbulu,
The Stooges,
The Birthday Party,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Slits,
Ponytail,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Fall,
Wire,
Charles Mingus,
Infiniti,
David Bowie,
Amon Düül II,
Average White Band,
Stiv Bators,
Model 500,
cv313,
Outsiders,
The Pretty Things,
Dawn Penn,
Quantec,
Half Japanese,
Sonic Youth,
Bootsy Collins,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultra Naté,
The Star Department,
Sarah Menescal,
Deakin,
Jawbox,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Walker Brothers,
Oneida,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Piero Umiliani,
Sällskapet,
The Mojo Men,
Moebius,
Monolake,
Kool Moe Dee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Association,
Brothers Johnson,
Sister Nancy,
Crispian St. Peters,
X-101,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Invisible,
Tubeway Army,
Zapp,
Alison Limerick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.