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 Swaziland and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Janne Schatter,
Nik Kershaw,
Skarface,
The Zeros,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed,
Minnie Riperton,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ken Boothe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soulsonic Force,
Eden Ahbez,
The Seeds,
Colin Newman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
June Days,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
the Sonics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bronski Beat,
Soul II Soul,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Music Machine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Finger,
Brand Nubian,
Unwound,
The Motions,
Anakelly,
UT,
Archie Shepp,
Patti Smith,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Foxx,
June of 44,
Smog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Last Poets,
Dead Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fall,
New York Dolls,
The Neon Judgement,
Robert Hood,
The Fire Engines,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eve St. Jones,
Eli Mardock,
Donald Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The United States of America,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Darondo,
Index,
Pere Ubu,
Rotary Connection,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.