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 India and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Warren Ellis to the rock 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Angels of Light,
Pagans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Pop Group,
Aaron Thompson,
The Associates,
Electric Prunes,
The Young Rascals,
Barbara Tucker,
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slits,
The Fire Engines,
DJ Style,
Peter and Kerry,
Little Man,
Junior Murvin,
Iggy Pop,
Rod Modell,
Simply Red,
Sparks,
Amon Düül,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Godley & Creme,
In Retrospect,
a-ha,
The Zeros,
The Dead C,
kango's stein massive,
Nas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sällskapet,
X-102,
Eurythmics,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yusef Lateef,
The Durutti Column,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cramps,
Maleditus Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soft Machine,
Curtis Mayfield,
Radiohead,
the Fania All-Stars,
Tim Buckley,
Second Layer,
Andrew Hill,
Bobby Byrd,
Vainqueur,
Funkadelic,
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Severed Heads,
Fat Boys,
The Doors,
Rosa Yemen,
the Human League,
Public Enemy,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.