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 Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 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 Minny Pops to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Bauhaus,
The Motions,
The Searchers,
Black Flag,
Essential Logic,
Mo-Dettes,
Maleditus Sound,
Skarface,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rufus Thomas,
the Human League,
Circle Jerks,
The Pop Group,
Skaos,
New York Dolls,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Busters,
Marine Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Avey Tare,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Donny Hathaway,
Erykah Badu,
Adolescents,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Delta 5,
Altered Images,
Frankie Knuckles,
Little Man,
Tubeway Army,
Moss Icon,
ABBA,
The Grass Roots,
Ohio Players,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fat Boys,
The Moody Blues,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Magma,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fear,
Lou Christie,
Toni Rubio,
Reuben Wilson,
Unwound,
Stetsasonic,
The Misunderstood,
Scrapy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lakeside,
Grey Daturas,
Gong,
Lindisfarne,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.