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 Tunisia and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cymande to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Junior Murvin,
The Moleskins,
Minnie Riperton,
The Five Americans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cluster,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
The Slackers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
Curtis Mayfield,
Schoolly D,
The New Christs,
U.S. Maple,
John Cale,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rites of Spring,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hashim,
In Retrospect,
The Gap Band,
Camouflage,
The Moody Blues,
Grey Daturas,
Todd Terry,
Model 500,
Joyce Sims,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Prince Buster,
Fear,
The Stooges,
Wings,
The United States of America,
Jandek,
F. McDonald,
Das Ding,
Minny Pops,
Brothers Johnson,
Q and Not U,
Barbara Tucker,
Yaz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lakeside,
The American Breed,
The Mummies,
Harpers Bizarre,
LL Cool J,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cameo,
Au Pairs,
CMW,
X-Ray Spex,
Marvin Gaye,
T.S.O.L.,
This Heat,
The Monks,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.