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 Qatar and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Ludus to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Association,
Little Man,
Buzzcocks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Glenn Branca,
Kerri Chandler,
Scan 7,
Half Japanese,
Can,
FM Einheit,
The Associates,
Matthew Bourne,
Joy Division,
Tomorrow,
Sound Behaviour,
Newcleus,
Ornette Coleman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Germs,
Cal Tjader,
X-101,
Lyres,
Girls At Our Best!,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blancmange,
Eve St. Jones,
Average White Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Toasters,
Ultravox,
H. Thieme,
OOIOO,
Bobby Byrd,
Slave,
The Velvet Underground,
Thee Headcoats,
Easy Going,
The Modern Lovers,
Cluster,
Minny Pops,
The Gun Club,
Maleditus Sound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marmalade,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skriet,
Gang Gang Dance,
Roxette,
Nick Fraelich,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
Steve Hackett,
Joyce Sims,
The Music Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.