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 Belarus and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Lydon,
The Litter,
The Evens,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fire Engines,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Tremeloes,
Severed Heads,
Josef K,
Bronski Beat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
Schoolly D,
Jandek,
Icehouse,
Howard Jones,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Slackers,
Young Marble Giants,
Royal Trux,
Saccharine Trust,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Smiths,
Moby Grape,
Tres Demented,
Infiniti,
The Human League,
Parry Music,
Silicon Teens,
Alton Ellis,
Can,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Names,
Neil Young,
Qualms,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Star Department,
Robert Hood,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Beau Brummels,
Flamin' Groovies,
Little Man,
Malaria!,
The Moleskins,
cv313,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Moss Icon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
kango's stein massive,
Althea and Donna,
Toni Rubio,
Ten City,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.