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 Cameroon and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Franke to the funk 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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
John Foxx,
Slave,
Excepter,
Reagan Youth,
Nils Olav,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Angry Samoans,
Stiv Bators,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chris & Cosey,
Johnny Clarke,
Shoche,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Residents,
The Smoke,
Essential Logic,
The Slackers,
48th St. Collective,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gang Green,
The Birthday Party,
Marc Almond,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Subhumans,
The J.B.'s,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
Fort Wilson Riot,
In Retrospect,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Donny Hathaway,
Supertramp,
The Mummies,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dave Gahan,
Hot Snakes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Arthur Verocai,
the Germs,
Mr. Review,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fear,
Graham Central Station,
Panda Bear,
The Victims,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ossler,
Steve Hackett,
Hoover,
Motorama,
Duran Duran,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fugs,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.