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 San Marino and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Blancmange to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Massinfluence,
EPMD,
Howard Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Ultra Naté,
Carl Craig,
Monks,
La Düsseldorf,
Liliput,
Peter and Kerry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Schoolly D,
The Raincoats,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Tremeloes,
The Beau Brummels,
Joy Division,
Peter & Gordon,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Slackers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Quando Quango,
Ronnie Foster,
The Wake,
Skriet,
Dennis Brown,
John Lydon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Negative Approach,
Joe Finger,
The Gap Band,
Grey Daturas,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Divine Comedy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Trojans,
Average White Band,
Bush Tetras,
The Slits,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mantronix,
Dawn Penn,
Gang of Four,
X-102,
David Bowie,
Ornette Coleman,
PIL,
Smog,
Judy Mowatt,
Das Ding,
The Doors,
Ten City,
CMW,
Scan 7,
The Star Department,
The Count Five,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.