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 Honduras and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb 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 Tim Buckley to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Popol Vuh,
Tim Buckley,
Ralphi Rosario,
Brick,
Skaos,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Massinfluence,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sarah Menescal,
Magma,
Drexciya,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Agent Orange,
Maleditus Sound,
Sound Behaviour,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jimmy McGriff,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grey Daturas,
Leonard Cohen,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
Lightning Bolt,
Easy Going,
New Age Steppers,
Wolf Eyes,
The Associates,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pylon,
Angry Samoans,
Scrapy,
The Buckinghams,
Faraquet,
The Techniques,
Shuggie Otis,
Jandek,
Cybotron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Soft Cell,
The Smoke,
LL Cool J,
The Monks,
One Last Wish,
The Durutti Column,
Pulsallama,
Ornette Coleman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Althea and Donna,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Human League,
Essential Logic,
Simply Red,
Alton Ellis,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.