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 Venezuela and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Sonics to the jazz 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Anthony Braxton,
Isaac Hayes,
Rotary Connection,
Scan 7,
Schoolly D,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jacques Brel,
Brand Nubian,
The Victims,
The Vogues,
Delta 5,
The Remains,
Fat Boys,
Byron Stingily,
The Red Krayola,
Royal Trux,
John Lydon,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
cv313,
Chris Corsano,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Green,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wire,
Crooked Eye,
Eurythmics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Human League,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Monolake,
ABC,
Todd Rundgren,
Marc Almond,
The United States of America,
The J.B.'s,
Depeche Mode,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brass Construction,
Popol Vuh,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
Q65,
Essential Logic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Cale,
The Music Machine,
The Kinks,
Rosa Yemen,
the Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
The Five Americans,
PIL,
a-ha,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.