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 Zambia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 Nik Kershaw to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Hood,
Stereo Dub,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Moleskins,
Schoolly D,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joyce Sims,
Delon & Dalcan,
Flash Fearless,
Babytalk,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fuzztones,
U.S. Maple,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Copeland,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dead Boys,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
Nils Olav,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maleditus Sound,
Sarah Menescal,
Massinfluence,
The Gun Club,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ken Boothe,
Shoche,
Stiv Bators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donny Hathaway,
Warren Ellis,
The Martian,
Drexciya,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eve St. Jones,
Black Sheep,
Monks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gang Gang Dance,
The New Christs,
Pussy Galore,
Eddi Front,
The Beau Brummels,
Wally Richardson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marmalade,
John Lydon,
James White and The Blacks,
Loose Ends,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fall,
Althea and Donna,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.