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 Syria and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Lakeside to the crunk 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Peter and Kerry,
Gabor Szabo,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gories,
Absolute Body Control,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sandy B,
The Neon Judgement,
The Alarm Clocks,
Television Personalities,
Swell Maps,
The Sonics,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Martian,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Bananas,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pulsallama,
Sonic Youth,
Japan,
Sixth Finger,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cure,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wasted Youth,
Massinfluence,
ABBA,
X-101,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Urselle,
Yazoo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
EPMD,
Lungfish,
Q and Not U,
Infiniti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eric Dolphy,
B.T. Express,
Andrew Hill,
Lucky Dragons,
Nas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Lydon,
Gregory Isaacs,
The New Christs,
Roger Hodgson,
Iggy Pop,
Ralphi Rosario,
Soft Cell,
Traffic Nightmare,
New Order,
Desert Stars,
Flamin' Groovies,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.