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 Kosovo and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Names to the rock 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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
The American Breed,
Visage,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eden Ahbez,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Zeros,
Althea and Donna,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Fortunes,
Bluetip,
Banda Bassotti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pylon,
The Modern Lovers,
Rufus Thomas,
Half Japanese,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Qualms,
John Foxx,
Funkadelic,
Aaron Thompson,
Absolute Body Control,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Last Poets,
Black Flag,
Reuben Wilson,
John Lydon,
Mark Hollis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Glenn Branca,
June of 44,
Sonic Youth,
Neil Young,
Unwound,
Sarah Menescal,
Index,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sam Rivers,
X-Ray Spex,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lindisfarne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Con Funk Shun,
Talk Talk,
The Smoke,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dorothy Ashby,
Janne Schatter,
Ice-T,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
Moss Icon,
Main Source,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scion,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.