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 Jordan and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pagans to the grunge 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rotary Connection,
Suicide,
Metal Thangz,
Peter and Kerry,
Pagans,
Schoolly D,
The Index,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Smiths,
The Walker Brothers,
Kenny Larkin,
Leonard Cohen,
The Kinks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
World's Most,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
B.T. Express,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soulsonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Divine Comedy,
Sandy B,
John Cale,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kayak,
The Golliwogs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Spandau Ballet,
Kaleidoscope,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Average White Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Grass Roots,
The Vogues,
H. Thieme,
Rites of Spring,
Matthew Halsall,
Yazoo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Johnny Osbourne,
Loose Ends,
Unwound,
Parry Music,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Man Eating Sloth,
Flash Fearless,
Chrome,
Ossler,
R.M.O.,
Robert Wyatt,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacob Miller,
Agitation Free,
Sixth Finger,
Buzzcocks,
Tom Boy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eric Dolphy,
L. Decosne,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.