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 South Africa and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Grey Daturas to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Sun City Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Searchers,
Q and Not U,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Durutti Column,
The Angels of Light,
Boz Scaggs,
Agent Orange,
Joensuu 1685,
Todd Terry,
Heaven 17,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Patti Smith,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Smiths,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Quando Quango,
The Remains,
Jacob Miller,
Sugar Minott,
Delon & Dalcan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fela Kuti,
Babytalk,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultimate Spinach,
Cymande,
Scott Walker,
The Trojans,
Grey Daturas,
The United States of America,
Kerri Chandler,
Gil Scott Heron,
AZ,
Scratch Acid,
Man Parrish,
Ice-T,
The Knickerbockers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Masters at Work,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultravox,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Robert Hood,
Supertramp,
The Gories,
The Modern Lovers,
Marvin Gaye,
Little Man,
Buzzcocks,
Wally Richardson,
the Bar-Kays,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neu!,
DJ Sneak,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.