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 Egypt and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Letta Mbulu to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Neil Young,
Outsiders,
JFA,
Dave Gahan,
The Smiths,
This Heat,
Hashim,
The Moleskins,
Kenny Larkin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tom Boy,
Essential Logic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Black Dice,
Barbara Tucker,
Scrapy,
Reagan Youth,
Kayak,
Brothers Johnson,
The Sound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeru the Damaja,
Underground Resistance,
the Human League,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mantronix,
The Angels of Light,
Radiopuhelimet,
Interpol,
Ponytail,
Bobby Womack,
Radio Birdman,
Stiv Bators,
The Blues Magoos,
T. Rex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mojo Men,
Zero Boys,
Chrome,
Rekid,
The Cure,
Whodini,
Suburban Knight,
Banda Bassotti,
Average White Band,
China Crisis,
Lungfish,
Supertramp,
Second Layer,
Bizarre Inc.,
Silicon Teens,
Yusef Lateef,
Chris Corsano,
Make Up,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jerry's Kids,
The Music Machine,
Lakeside,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.