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 Latvia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Stockholm Monsters to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Guru Guru,
Jerry's Kids,
Duran Duran,
Negative Approach,
Maleditus Sound,
Terrestrial Tones,
Excepter,
Crooked Eye,
The Moody Blues,
Peter & Gordon,
X-Ray Spex,
Sun Ra,
Lou Christie,
Liliput,
Radiohead,
Michelle Simonal,
Monolake,
Boredoms,
Cluster,
Underground Resistance,
Scott Walker,
The Moleskins,
Faust,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tommy Roe,
The Saints,
Alton Ellis,
The Zeros,
Pierre Henry,
Pussy Galore,
Freddie Wadling,
Laurel Aitken,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Smog,
Theoretical Girls,
Davy DMX,
Icehouse,
MDC,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Outsiders,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Man Parrish,
Amon Düül,
Q65,
Lalo Schifrin,
Little Man,
Absolute Body Control,
The Divine Comedy,
Von Mondo,
Eli Mardock,
David Axelrod,
Roger Hodgson,
Gabor Szabo,
Todd Rundgren,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Cale,
Gang Gang Dance,
Anakelly,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.