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 Korea North and from Lyon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ituana to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Ornette Coleman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Modern Lovers,
The Black Dice,
K-Klass,
Motorama,
New York Dolls,
Neil Young,
Yazoo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Erykah Badu,
Brand Nubian,
Lindisfarne,
Marc Almond,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Grey Daturas,
Buzzcocks,
Joe Smooth,
Duran Duran,
Susan Cadogan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Electric Prunes,
The Vogues,
Amon Düül II,
Frankie Knuckles,
DJ Style,
Zapp,
Deadbeat,
Pylon,
Letta Mbulu,
Black Sheep,
Babytalk,
Audionom,
Von Mondo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
John Lydon,
The Gories,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter & Gordon,
ABBA,
Roxy Music,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
Masters at Work,
Gang of Four,
The Grass Roots,
Nils Olav,
Alice Coltrane,
Cybotron,
The Five Americans,
The Count Five,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Juan Atkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bobby Womack,
Blancmange,
The Searchers,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.