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 Kiribati and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Circle Jerks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Remains,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Birthday Party,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
Banda Bassotti,
Basic Channel,
Josef K,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
Simply Red,
Patti Smith,
Parry Music,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alphaville,
Chris Corsano,
Lyres,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bobby Womack,
Icehouse,
Marvin Gaye,
Cluster,
The Fire Engines,
Frankie Knuckles,
Reuben Wilson,
Colin Newman,
Bauhaus,
Mandrill,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Gap Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Royal Trux,
Idris Muhammad,
E-Dancer,
T.S.O.L.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bobby Hutcherson,
10cc,
David McCallum,
Brick,
Pagans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Christie,
Pierre Henry,
Jeff Mills,
Soul II Soul,
Joe Smooth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Mummies,
Black Bananas,
The Dirtbombs,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
Moebius,
Lakeside,
Marine Girls,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.