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 Moldova and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 Thompson Twins to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Cameo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Unrelated Segments,
Average White Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lindisfarne,
Ralphi Rosario,
This Heat,
Flipper,
Chris & Cosey,
New Order,
The Barracudas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Gun Club,
KRS-One,
Swans,
DJ Style,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Golliwogs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Todd Rundgren,
Young Marble Giants,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scion,
Hardrive,
Amon Düül,
Carl Craig,
Scientists,
Crooked Eye,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
The Cowsills,
Procol Harum,
Icehouse,
Underground Resistance,
Country Teasers,
Laurel Aitken,
Agent Orange,
The Stooges,
Tim Buckley,
Arthur Verocai,
Suburban Knight,
Slick Rick,
Dead Boys,
Unwound,
Joey Negro,
Boogie Down Productions,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Christie,
Can,
Arab on Radar,
The Music Machine,
Blancmange,
The Standells,
Das Ding,
The Moody Blues,
Trumans Water,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kaleidoscope,
Mission of Burma,
Fad Gadget,
Ken Boothe,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.