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 Bahrain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lee Hazlewood to the funk 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scott Walker,
Yusef Lateef,
Nick Fraelich,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slave,
Organ,
Joensuu 1685,
Grey Daturas,
One Last Wish,
Masters at Work,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Slits,
Deepchord,
Connie Case,
Lucky Dragons,
Quantec,
La Düsseldorf,
The Count Five,
Archie Shepp,
Outsiders,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joe Finger,
Ralphi Rosario,
Prince Buster,
The New Christs,
The Barracudas,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marcia Griffiths,
Trumans Water,
ABBA,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kas Product,
Theoretical Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Young Rascals,
a-ha,
Infiniti,
Joey Negro,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Smog,
The Sound,
Excepter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Depeche Mode,
Pagans,
The Stooges,
Marmalade,
Black Pus,
Davy DMX,
Vladislav Delay,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ponytail,
Glambeats Corp.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.