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 China and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Soul II Soul to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Yaz,
The Neon Judgement,
Ultra Naté,
MDC,
Mary Jane Girls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Blossom Toes,
Cymande,
Whodini,
The Star Department,
Erasure,
Magma,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sun City Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stiv Bators,
Alice Coltrane,
Roxette,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tim Buckley,
Pulsallama,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
The Blues Magoos,
Arthur Verocai,
Nico,
Marc Almond,
Television,
ABBA,
The Evens,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fugs,
Bobby Womack,
Connie Case,
kango's stein massive,
Dave Gahan,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül,
Davy DMX,
Pole,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Walker Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Gang of Four,
The Real Kids,
Flipper,
Unwound,
Clear Light,
Youth Brigade,
Eddi Front,
Niagra,
Buzzcocks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jawbox,
Animal Collective,
Japan,
Lou Reed,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.