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 Namibia and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Nico,
Matthew Bourne,
Excepter,
Simply Red,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Severed Heads,
Jacques Brel,
Main Source,
Fluxion,
Spandau Ballet,
La Düsseldorf,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
The Gories,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tres Demented,
Joensuu 1685,
Josef K,
Zero Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aaron Thompson,
Underground Resistance,
Talk Talk,
Black Sheep,
Monks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Freddie Wadling,
Television Personalities,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pagans,
Rekid,
Cybotron,
The Names,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Quando Quango,
David Bowie,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Beau Brummels,
Scott Walker,
OOIOO,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Style,
Albert Ayler,
The Count Five,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lucky Dragons,
The Standells,
Nas,
Yazoo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Piero Umiliani,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Human League,
Howard Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
Arcadia,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lee Hazlewood,
Country Teasers,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.