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 Dominica and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Germs to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Marc Almond,
Rotary Connection,
Wolf Eyes,
MDC,
The Busters,
Hoover,
Harmonia,
Crispy Ambulance,
Average White Band,
Aswad,
Simply Red,
The Offenders,
Amazonics,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ponytail,
The Monks,
Dave Gahan,
The Moleskins,
The Grass Roots,
The Neon Judgement,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Frankie Knuckles,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
The Last Poets,
The Toasters,
Icehouse,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Wake,
Joe Finger,
Make Up,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tim Buckley,
KRS-One,
K-Klass,
Soul Sonic Force,
Television,
Brothers Johnson,
Chrome,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Swans,
R.M.O.,
Zapp,
Carl Craig,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jerry's Kids,
Dark Day,
Piero Umiliani,
The Angels of Light,
The Human League,
Ken Boothe,
Gichy Dan,
Excepter,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Martian,
Nas,
Ronnie Foster,
Kenny Larkin,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.