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 India and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jeff Lynne to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Marc Almond,
Goldenarms,
Trumans Water,
Gang Starr,
Newcleus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Motorama,
the Association,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vainqueur,
John Lydon,
Rosa Yemen,
Aswad,
DNA,
Camouflage,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mars,
Warren Ellis,
Carl Craig,
Chris Corsano,
Scratch Acid,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sparks,
Minny Pops,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Reagan Youth,
Aaron Thompson,
Dave Gahan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Techniques,
Flash Fearless,
Eve St. Jones,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Parry Music,
Bang On A Can,
Royal Trux,
Monks,
Barrington Levy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Magazine,
Kayak,
Freddie Wadling,
Duran Duran,
Patti Smith,
Mary Jane Girls,
Danielle Patucci,
Amazonics,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terry Callier,
Yellowson,
The Index,
The Trojans,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.