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 Solomon Islands and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 New York Dolls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Dark Day,
The Smiths,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scientists,
Accadde A,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sound,
Robert Görl,
The Electric Prunes,
Cecil Taylor,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funkadelic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
The Last Poets,
Minor Threat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lindisfarne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Youth Brigade,
Black Moon,
The Buckinghams,
The Seeds,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Royal Trux,
Eurythmics,
Groovy Waters,
The Martian,
David McCallum,
Joe Finger,
Hasil Adkins,
Quantec,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
Procol Harum,
Spandau Ballet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lou Reed,
The Gories,
Alphaville,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Symarip,
Amon Düül,
Faust,
Liliput,
Ponytail,
Crash Course in Science,
The Index,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soul II Soul,
Max Romeo,
Rotary Connection,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Starr,
Boredoms,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.