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 Spain and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sun City Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Tears for Fears,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joe Smooth,
Junior Murvin,
Rekid,
Max Romeo,
Matthew Halsall,
Ken Boothe,
Outsiders,
U.S. Maple,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Metal Thangz,
Excepter,
Judy Mowatt,
Peter and Kerry,
PIL,
Porter Ricks,
Suburban Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Fatback Band,
The Red Krayola,
Derrick Morgan,
Silicon Teens,
Average White Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Patti Smith,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mission of Burma,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eurythmics,
David Bowie,
The Gun Club,
Barrington Levy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pere Ubu,
Icehouse,
Easy Going,
Sonic Youth,
Eddi Front,
The Fugs,
Joy Division,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tubeway Army,
Kurtis Blow,
The Star Department,
This Heat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kerri Chandler,
Traffic Nightmare,
Neu!,
John Foxx,
Nas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tomorrow,
Cheater Slicks,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.