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 Peru and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Loose Ends to the punk 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Sun City Girls,
The Stooges,
Metal Thangz,
The Smoke,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kayak,
ABC,
Television Personalities,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pere Ubu,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
Delta 5,
48th St. Collective,
Magma,
Wings,
Blancmange,
Hardrive,
Quadrant,
UT,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Fania All-Stars,
World's Most,
Black Moon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Brick,
Slick Rick,
The Count Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Bananas,
Nas,
Steve Hackett,
The Fuzztones,
One Last Wish,
Maleditus Sound,
DJ Style,
Fluxion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Accadde A,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Talk Talk,
Agitation Free,
Lyres,
a-ha,
Half Japanese,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eden Ahbez,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stetsasonic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minor Threat,
Marine Girls,
Lalo Schifrin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nik Kershaw,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.