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 Kuwait and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Doors to the disco 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantaleimon,
Brothers Johnson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Monks,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joyce Sims,
The Vogues,
Babytalk,
The Neon Judgement,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
Unwound,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry's Kids,
Kas Product,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Leonard Cohen,
The Associates,
The Walker Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gladiators,
Sight & Sound,
Rekid,
Ludus,
Angry Samoans,
Saccharine Trust,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Germs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Leaves,
Janne Schatter,
Quadrant,
Fear,
Jacques Brel,
The Music Machine,
The Litter,
a-ha,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
Rotary Connection,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Crime,
48th St. Collective,
Vainqueur,
Boogie Down Productions,
Audionom,
Supertramp,
Depeche Mode,
The Alarm Clocks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Pus,
Interpol,
Amon Düül,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Trumans Water,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.