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 South Sudan and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Patti Smith to the disco 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Sixth Finger,
Brand Nubian,
The Remains,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radio Birdman,
Colin Newman,
Gabor Szabo,
Idris Muhammad,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marshall Jefferson,
Michelle Simonal,
Make Up,
The Martian,
Rotary Connection,
Danielle Patucci,
Model 500,
The Victims,
The Angels of Light,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mars,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gichy Dan,
Black Moon,
Ultravox,
The Names,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eve St. Jones,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Blackbyrds,
Youth Brigade,
Shoche,
Accadde A,
Second Layer,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Graham Central Station,
Technova,
F. McDonald,
Albert Ayler,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Zero Boys,
Pylon,
Masters at Work,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Loose Ends,
Stockholm Monsters,
The United States of America,
Tommy Roe,
The Neon Judgement,
U.S. Maple,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Freddie Wadling,
The Walker Brothers,
Yazoo,
The Sonics,
Subhumans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Television,
DJ Sneak,
The Mojo Men,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fugs,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.