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 Congo and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare 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 Flash Fearless to the disco 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Echospace,
Fugazi,
Al Stewart,
Liliput,
The Buckinghams,
Pharoah Sanders,
Glambeats Corp.,
LL Cool J,
Charles Mingus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Public Image Ltd.,
Matthew Halsall,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Invisible,
Ludus,
The Smiths,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eden Ahbez,
Glenn Branca,
Donald Byrd,
X-102,
Dave Gahan,
Kas Product,
The Misunderstood,
Loose Ends,
The Count Five,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vainqueur,
The Modern Lovers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Anthony Braxton,
Minny Pops,
CMW,
Simply Red,
Crooked Eye,
Brand Nubian,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bill Near,
Max Romeo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick Morgan,
Stiv Bators,
The Gories,
Lyres,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Saints,
Easy Going,
Theoretical Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Last Poets,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Blancmange,
Severed Heads,
The Move,
Hashim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.