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 Austria and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bill Near to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soft Cell,
The United States of America,
Reuben Wilson,
Procol Harum,
Minutemen,
Marc Almond,
New Order,
Matthew Halsall,
Faraquet,
The Evens,
Delon & Dalcan,
Aloha Tigers,
D'Angelo,
Lyres,
Johnny Clarke,
Ten City,
LL Cool J,
Joe Finger,
the Bar-Kays,
Malaria!,
kango's stein massive,
Tim Buckley,
Con Funk Shun,
Flash Fearless,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Unrelated Segments,
Chrome,
cv313,
Mr. Review,
Television Personalities,
Maurizio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
EPMD,
Derrick May,
Marmalade,
Quadrant,
Massinfluence,
the Sonics,
Alison Limerick,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gichy Dan,
The Invisible,
Glenn Branca,
Tom Boy,
Suburban Knight,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Birthday Party,
David Bowie,
The Raincoats,
Von Mondo,
Amon Düül,
Yazoo,
Depeche Mode,
Colin Newman,
The Divine Comedy,
Gil Scott Heron,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.