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 Albania and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Scott Walker to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Goldenarms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Howard Jones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echo & the Bunnymen,
kango's stein massive,
Hardrive,
Roxette,
Amazonics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Pop Group,
Unrelated Segments,
Silicon Teens,
Nick Fraelich,
The Trojans,
the Swans,
Bobby Byrd,
The Divine Comedy,
The Zeros,
Icehouse,
Ornette Coleman,
Crash Course in Science,
Parry Music,
Joe Finger,
Gichy Dan,
Marc Almond,
The Residents,
Pierre Henry,
Altered Images,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wire,
The Invisible,
Qualms,
Marine Girls,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Moleskins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vainqueur,
The Victims,
Fatback Band,
Morten Harket,
Bizarre Inc.,
Essential Logic,
Cal Tjader,
Idris Muhammad,
Circle Jerks,
Dark Day,
the Sonics,
Nils Olav,
B.T. Express,
Brothers Johnson,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kaleidoscope,
Zapp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.