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 Kuwait and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Talk Talk to the crunk 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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Boz Scaggs,
Television Personalities,
Sixth Finger,
The Walker Brothers,
The Young Rascals,
Donald Byrd,
Marine Girls,
Blancmange,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
UT,
The Doors,
The Sonics,
Symarip,
Liliput,
Mary Jane Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
The Standells,
Gang Green,
Royal Trux,
CMW,
Flash Fearless,
The Mummies,
10cc,
Reuben Wilson,
Basic Channel,
Connie Case,
Television,
Icehouse,
Stetsasonic,
Ultra Naté,
Dark Day,
The Fire Engines,
Eric Dolphy,
Danielle Patucci,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slits,
X-102,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Matthew Bourne,
Pharoah Sanders,
Althea and Donna,
The Saints,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Association,
X-101,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Albert Ayler,
Pylon,
John Cale,
DJ Sneak,
The Associates,
Moby Grape,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rod Modell,
John Coltrane,
MC5,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.