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 Tunisia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the rap 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Peter & Gordon,
Bill Wells,
Eurythmics,
Chrome,
Pantaleimon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Porter Ricks,
Nick Fraelich,
Depeche Mode,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Todd Terry,
The Standells,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cymande,
Spandau Ballet,
Panda Bear,
Moss Icon,
Interpol,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pylon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Last Poets,
ABBA,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ornette Coleman,
David Axelrod,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dual Sessions,
Skriet,
Unrelated Segments,
Jandek,
The Divine Comedy,
Clear Light,
The Star Department,
Procol Harum,
Fugazi,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dawn Penn,
Duran Duran,
Bad Manners,
The Buckinghams,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Birthday Party,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bush Tetras,
Jeff Lynne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tropical Tobacco,
Easy Going,
Ultravox,
Terry Callier,
John Holt,
Pagans,
Sarah Menescal,
The Blackbyrds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thee Headcoats,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.