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 Turkey and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Eli Mardock to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
The Blackbyrds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marine Girls,
Warren Ellis,
Jeru the Damaja,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scott Walker,
Wings,
Stereo Dub,
Eve St. Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skarface,
Brand Nubian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Cure,
MC5,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed,
Bob Dylan,
Donald Byrd,
Agitation Free,
Ituana,
The Gun Club,
Rod Modell,
Rosa Yemen,
Morten Harket,
R.M.O.,
Deepchord,
The Buckinghams,
Oblivians,
Kurtis Blow,
Minutemen,
Skriet,
Thee Headcoats,
Mantronix,
Moss Icon,
Main Source,
June Days,
Royal Trux,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Saccharine Trust,
Sister Nancy,
Mo-Dettes,
Pharoah Sanders,
The New Christs,
Laurel Aitken,
Sexual Harrassment,
Schoolly D,
Amon Düül II,
Man Eating Sloth,
Banda Bassotti,
Circle Jerks,
Pole,
Model 500,
James White and The Blacks,
The Offenders,
Joensuu 1685,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.