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 South Africa and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Sam Rivers 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Modern Lovers,
Stereo Dub,
Minny Pops,
Yellowson,
Gang Green,
Pet Shop Boys,
Chris Corsano,
Bluetip,
Eric Copeland,
Boz Scaggs,
The Birthday Party,
The Gories,
the Germs,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
The Human League,
Hardrive,
Wings,
Joensuu 1685,
Rapeman,
The Happenings,
Crash Course in Science,
Negative Approach,
Lungfish,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Blues Magoos,
Amon Düül,
Skaos,
The Residents,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Holt,
Loose Ends,
Banda Bassotti,
the Swans,
Black Flag,
The Monochrome Set,
Bill Near,
The Mummies,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Althea and Donna,
The Gladiators,
Deakin,
Q and Not U,
Black Bananas,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux,
Swans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cramps,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visage,
X-102,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Martian,
Aaron Thompson,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.