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 Grenada and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar 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 Fad Gadget to the dance 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
The Fortunes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Toasters,
Newcleus,
The Skatalites,
Skarface,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Slackers,
Ponytail,
Camouflage,
Average White Band,
Black Sheep,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bluetip,
Nation of Ulysses,
Erasure,
Godley & Creme,
The Residents,
Second Layer,
the Swans,
The Human League,
Faust,
Sly & The Family Stone,
R.M.O.,
Guru Guru,
In Retrospect,
Juan Atkins,
Danielle Patucci,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed,
Lou Christie,
K-Klass,
Siglo XX,
Colin Newman,
Dark Day,
Moss Icon,
Bootsy Collins,
Section 25,
Brand Nubian,
Massinfluence,
Symarip,
Neil Young,
The Doors,
Reuben Wilson,
Chris Corsano,
The Modern Lovers,
Half Japanese,
Outsiders,
Livin' Joy,
The Trojans,
Yazoo,
Tears for Fears,
Ronan,
Boredoms,
ABC,
The Happenings,
Unwound,
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.