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 Peru and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Doors to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Popol Vuh,
Ultravox,
Black Sheep,
Stockholm Monsters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Essential Logic,
Scan 7,
Charles Mingus,
Traffic Nightmare,
Negative Approach,
Interpol,
The Standells,
The Monochrome Set,
Swans,
Young Marble Giants,
ABBA,
Albert Ayler,
8 Eyed Spy,
Quantec,
Stetsasonic,
The Beau Brummels,
Erasure,
UT,
Subhumans,
Bill Wells,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jawbox,
Television Personalities,
Lungfish,
Mo-Dettes,
DJ Sneak,
The United States of America,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pagans,
Ronnie Foster,
Kenny Larkin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Birthday Party,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bluetip,
Max Romeo,
Arab on Radar,
Electric Prunes,
Neil Young,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Wake,
The Gladiators,
John Foxx,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Howard Jones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fear,
Bootsy Collins,
Absolute Body Control,
The Divine Comedy,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Sherman,
The Toasters,
Kas Product,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.