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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 China Crisis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
In Retrospect,
The American Breed,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kurtis Blow,
Interpol,
Lalann,
Half Japanese,
Pere Ubu,
Chris Corsano,
Motorama,
Goldenarms,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Wire,
the Association,
The Smiths,
The Gories,
Ten City,
X-101,
Television Personalities,
Warsaw,
Oblivians,
Toni Rubio,
Moebius,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bush Tetras,
Yusef Lateef,
Aloha Tigers,
Kerri Chandler,
Pylon,
Royal Trux,
Jimmy McGriff,
Symarip,
Kas Product,
Blancmange,
Depeche Mode,
Jacques Brel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barbara Tucker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Don Cherry,
The Real Kids,
Nik Kershaw,
Quando Quango,
Quadrant,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Urselle,
the Slits,
Masters at Work,
The Count Five,
The Residents,
Lungfish,
Anakelly,
Barry Ungar,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Warren Ellis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Erasure,
The Saints,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Amon Düül,
Chrome,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.