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 Netherlands and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Visage to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Godley & Creme,
The J.B.'s,
Nation of Ulysses,
Funky Four + One,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sun Ra,
Smog,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Excepter,
Arab on Radar,
Man Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Maleditus Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Joe Smooth,
Carl Craig,
The Red Krayola,
Cluster,
Sarah Menescal,
Absolute Body Control,
Robert Wyatt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blues Magoos,
Model 500,
Mo-Dettes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Searchers,
T.S.O.L.,
Duran Duran,
Yazoo,
Letta Mbulu,
The Smiths,
The Remains,
Slave,
Khruangbin,
Subhumans,
Electric Prunes,
X-Ray Spex,
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cymande,
E-Dancer,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultra Naté,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anakelly,
Scion,
Urselle,
Radiohead,
The Barracudas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Symarip,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.