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 Hungary and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gang Starr to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Gang Dance,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter & Gordon,
Swans,
X-Ray Spex,
Scion,
The J.B.'s,
Funkadelic,
Swell Maps,
The Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
Icehouse,
8 Eyed Spy,
Section 25,
Yusef Lateef,
Sun City Girls,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monks,
Michelle Simonal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Graham Central Station,
Eurythmics,
Jawbox,
Monolake,
Average White Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Toni Rubio,
Moss Icon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Chris Corsano,
Harry Pussy,
K-Klass,
June Days,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scientists,
Rod Modell,
John Coltrane,
Chris & Cosey,
Roy Ayers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Patti Smith,
Echospace,
Little Man,
Alphaville,
Zero Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Nirvana,
The Black Dice,
Ken Boothe,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Maurizio,
the Association,
Porter Ricks,
Sight & Sound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Charles Mingus,
Funky Four + One,
The Young Rascals,
June of 44,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.