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 Bulgaria and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Stiv Bators to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Black Flag,
Ralphi Rosario,
Half Japanese,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bronski Beat,
Joey Negro,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soulsonic Force,
Patti Smith,
Girls At Our Best!,
Todd Rundgren,
Byron Stingily,
Hashim,
Gang Green,
Rapeman,
Scratch Acid,
Laurel Aitken,
Boz Scaggs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Janne Schatter,
Lightning Bolt,
The Young Rascals,
Henry Cow,
Suburban Knight,
Blossom Toes,
Robert Görl,
Don Cherry,
The Motions,
Pere Ubu,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Electric Prunes,
Blancmange,
Dual Sessions,
Godley & Creme,
Dead Boys,
Marine Girls,
Stetsasonic,
Lindisfarne,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Isaac Hayes,
Maleditus Sound,
June of 44,
Joy Division,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Danielle Patucci,
Ice-T,
Eve St. Jones,
Altered Images,
Colin Newman,
New Order,
Flipper,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Bar-Kays,
The Moody Blues,
T.S.O.L.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Negative Approach,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.