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 Cambodia and from Glasgow.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro 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 Flamin' Groovies to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Associates,
Radiohead,
The Real Kids,
The Doors,
Ultravox,
Bobby Womack,
Morten Harket,
Joyce Sims,
Schoolly D,
The Dead C,
Nirvana,
Aural Exciters,
The Birthday Party,
Basic Channel,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eric Dolphy,
Franke,
The Pop Group,
Black Sheep,
Qualms,
Pole,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The New Christs,
Japan,
Neil Young,
Gang of Four,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sound Behaviour,
Surgeon,
R.M.O.,
the Slits,
Flipper,
Stiv Bators,
Ituana,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
JFA,
Lightning Bolt,
The Young Rascals,
Dave Gahan,
Nico,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Walker Brothers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agitation Free,
Glenn Branca,
Johnny Clarke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Porter Ricks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sight & Sound,
Lou Christie,
Reagan Youth,
Eurythmics,
The Star Department,
Eric Copeland,
Unwound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.