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 Poland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 One Last Wish to the rock 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Lucky Dragons,
The Dirtbombs,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Red Krayola,
Eve St. Jones,
Goldenarms,
Morten Harket,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Terrestrial Tones,
Soft Machine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Roy Ayers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Average White Band,
The Techniques,
Rosa Yemen,
Ken Boothe,
Unwound,
Lakeside,
Darondo,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalann,
Scientists,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobby Womack,
Pharoah Sanders,
E-Dancer,
Severed Heads,
the Germs,
Pulsallama,
Max Romeo,
Eurythmics,
Sarah Menescal,
Neil Young,
Iggy Pop,
Susan Cadogan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Archie Shepp,
Y Pants,
Rapeman,
Josef K,
Ohio Players,
Yellowson,
The Tremeloes,
Thompson Twins,
The American Breed,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Stereo Dub,
Howard Jones,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camberwell Now,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fatback Band,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.