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 Comoros and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Standells to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
The Dave Clark Five,
Mandrill,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sam Rivers,
Little Man,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wally Richardson,
Chris & Cosey,
Bronski Beat,
Theoretical Girls,
Marine Girls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sound Behaviour,
Pulsallama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barry Ungar,
Mad Mike,
Khruangbin,
Johnny Clarke,
Second Layer,
Black Sheep,
Marc Almond,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eli Mardock,
China Crisis,
Vladislav Delay,
Brand Nubian,
Livin' Joy,
Banda Bassotti,
One Last Wish,
Carl Craig,
Agent Orange,
Hashim,
Outsiders,
JFA,
Rakim,
EPMD,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Fall,
Peter and Kerry,
Talk Talk,
The Human League,
Pantytec,
Deadbeat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Red Krayola,
Pole,
The Victims,
The Stooges,
The Happenings,
Ronan,
Quadrant,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Panda Bear,
The Count Five,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
New York Dolls,
Ice-T,
Make Up,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.