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 Tonga and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 Deakin to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Toni Rubio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Organ,
Guru Guru,
Quando Quango,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Josef K,
Glambeats Corp.,
DNA,
Hashim,
Underground Resistance,
Marshall Jefferson,
10cc,
Metal Thangz,
Glenn Branca,
D'Angelo,
Ronan,
a-ha,
Minnie Riperton,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lee Hazlewood,
Quantec,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Arcadia,
The Gories,
Kaleidoscope,
Anthony Braxton,
Yaz,
The Fortunes,
Young Marble Giants,
Man Parrish,
Shuggie Otis,
Mark Hollis,
Y Pants,
Delon & Dalcan,
Infiniti,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Sandy B,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fugs,
Pantaleimon,
Groovy Waters,
Section 25,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Slits,
Sonic Youth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Minny Pops,
E-Dancer,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Monks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Model 500,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.