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 Albania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 8 Eyed Spy to the rock 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Warren Ellis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Toni Rubio,
Symarip,
Von Mondo,
Bauhaus,
Cecil Taylor,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cure,
China Crisis,
Banda Bassotti,
Cal Tjader,
The Busters,
Stereo Dub,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Essential Logic,
Crime,
Ultravox,
Hardrive,
John Coltrane,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker,
Aural Exciters,
Sister Nancy,
F. McDonald,
Fad Gadget,
Ornette Coleman,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Dead C,
Monolake,
Black Moon,
Cheater Slicks,
Public Enemy,
Joy Division,
Livin' Joy,
Amon Düül,
Subhumans,
48th St. Collective,
Eric Dolphy,
Kenny Larkin,
Tubeway Army,
James White and The Blacks,
DJ Sneak,
Little Man,
The United States of America,
JFA,
the Sonics,
Simply Red,
Chris & Cosey,
The Slackers,
The Evens,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
Rosa Yemen,
Althea and Donna,
The Motions,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.