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 Singapore and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Vogues to the crunk 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Roger Hodgson,
Eden Ahbez,
Gregory Isaacs,
kango's stein massive,
Sparks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Organ,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Names,
Bobby Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Second Layer,
Quadrant,
Radio Birdman,
Drive Like Jehu,
Monolake,
The Dirtbombs,
Skarface,
CMW,
The Angels of Light,
Letta Mbulu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jawbox,
Fela Kuti,
a-ha,
Wings,
Gastr Del Sol,
Swell Maps,
The Last Poets,
The Searchers,
Radiohead,
John Cale,
Dark Day,
Terry Callier,
Gang of Four,
Matthew Bourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Cymande,
The Standells,
Stereo Dub,
The Toasters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harmonia,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Au Pairs,
Jesper Dahlback,
OOIOO,
Josef K,
The Shadows of Knight,
Make Up,
Sex Pistols,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sister Nancy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Knickerbockers,
Cybotron,
Icehouse,
The Divine Comedy,
The Pop Group,
Clear Light,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.