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 Bulgaria and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Newcleus to the electroclash 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pagans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bauhaus,
Fugazi,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Unrelated Segments,
The Alarm Clocks,
Glenn Branca,
The Music Machine,
Leonard Cohen,
The J.B.'s,
The Angels of Light,
Godley & Creme,
Ituana,
Scan 7,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fluxion,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Michelle Simonal,
Second Layer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dave Gahan,
Dawn Penn,
The Detroit Cobras,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Freddie Wadling,
Flamin' Groovies,
Make Up,
Rod Modell,
Lower 48,
One Last Wish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Laurel Aitken,
E-Dancer,
Terry Callier,
The Cramps,
Pylon,
U.S. Maple,
Wally Richardson,
Adolescents,
Clear Light,
Swans,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Soft Cell,
Minny Pops,
The Leaves,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Offenders,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Victims,
Lalann,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Yaz,
T. Rex,
Monolake,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Black Flag,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.