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 Houston.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 June Days 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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Massinfluence,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Modern Lovers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Masters at Work,
Toni Rubio,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Todd Rundgren,
Nico,
The Five Americans,
Susan Cadogan,
Shuggie Otis,
Yellowson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter and Kerry,
Mr. Review,
Slave,
Reagan Youth,
Throbbing Gristle,
Audionom,
Model 500,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Essential Logic,
L. Decosne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jeff Lynne,
Surgeon,
Babytalk,
The Blackbyrds,
These Immortal Souls,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Prince Buster,
Urselle,
Mandrill,
Deakin,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Dirtbombs,
The Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wolf Eyes,
Robert Wyatt,
Marmalade,
Los Fastidios,
Supertramp,
John Coltrane,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Chris & Cosey,
The Move,
New Order,
the Slits,
The Index,
MC5,
The J.B.'s,
D'Angelo,
Pagans,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.