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 Colombia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Crime to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
Adolescents,
Oblivians,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blossom Toes,
Jandek,
Tropical Tobacco,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABBA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Symarip,
Alton Ellis,
Aswad,
Curtis Mayfield,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Rufus Thomas,
Eden Ahbez,
MDC,
Thompson Twins,
Fluxion,
Radiohead,
the Normal,
Hasil Adkins,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Sherman,
Tubeway Army,
Bad Manners,
The Mummies,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Talk Talk,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Das Ding,
Blancmange,
The Cure,
PIL,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultravox,
Lou Christie,
DJ Style,
Marvin Gaye,
the Soft Cell,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pere Ubu,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Fall,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker,
The Move,
Niagra,
Saccharine Trust,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fad Gadget,
The Smiths,
Johnny Clarke,
Moss Icon,
Howard Jones,
Fat Boys,
Alison Limerick,
Outsiders,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.