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 Thailand and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Warsaw to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Zapp,
Blancmange,
Girls At Our Best!,
Unrelated Segments,
Junior Murvin,
Lower 48,
Theoretical Girls,
Vainqueur,
E-Dancer,
Lee Hazlewood,
This Heat,
Rotary Connection,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The United States of America,
cv313,
The Remains,
The Saints,
Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fear,
The Cowsills,
Fad Gadget,
Lou Christie,
Pole,
Vladislav Delay,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Mummies,
Icehouse,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
Mandrill,
The Count Five,
Metal Thangz,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grey Daturas,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Skatalites,
Lakeside,
Bronski Beat,
La Düsseldorf,
Steve Hackett,
Josef K,
The Modern Lovers,
The Gories,
Nas,
The Red Krayola,
The Names,
David Bowie,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Surgeon,
The Stooges,
Lyres,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rites of Spring,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.