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 Lebanon and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Yazoo to the rap 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
This Heat,
The Human League,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
cv313,
Barrington Levy,
Ice-T,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül II,
The Doobie Brothers,
Von Mondo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lindisfarne,
Lower 48,
Marine Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
David Axelrod,
Talk Talk,
Suburban Knight,
Jeru the Damaja,
Agent Orange,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlback,
a-ha,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
In Retrospect,
the Association,
Unrelated Segments,
Hot Snakes,
Slave,
Television Personalities,
Lee Hazlewood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Buzzcocks,
The Slits,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James White and The Blacks,
U.S. Maple,
Dawn Penn,
Procol Harum,
Albert Ayler,
B.T. Express,
Iggy Pop,
Kaleidoscope,
ABBA,
The Fuzztones,
AZ,
Scientists,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Don Cherry,
Scion,
The Five Americans,
Basic Channel,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.