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 Congo and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Reed,
Funky Four + One,
The Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Adolescents,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Radiohead,
Siglo XX,
The Cramps,
Girls At Our Best!,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scratch Acid,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The New Christs,
Aswad,
Nico,
Rufus Thomas,
Minnie Riperton,
the Germs,
Yaz,
Bobby Sherman,
Half Japanese,
The Mummies,
The Saints,
Terry Callier,
Icehouse,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
10cc,
Minny Pops,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T.S.O.L.,
Buzzcocks,
Quando Quango,
Das Ding,
Roger Hodgson,
Tres Demented,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alphaville,
Clear Light,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eve St. Jones,
Danielle Patucci,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
UT,
Little Man,
The Seeds,
The Gap Band,
Radio Birdman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Whodini,
Cluster,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skriet,
Negative Approach,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.