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 Kosovo and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 Pere Ubu to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Erykah Badu,
Bill Near,
Basic Channel,
Peter and Kerry,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Halsall,
Young Marble Giants,
The Neon Judgement,
Glenn Branca,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tears for Fears,
Thompson Twins,
Loose Ends,
Connie Case,
Talk Talk,
Todd Rundgren,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Count Five,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mojo Men,
The Durutti Column,
The Human League,
cv313,
Q and Not U,
Radio Birdman,
Idris Muhammad,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Germs,
The Standells,
Scrapy,
Hardrive,
David Bowie,
The Skatalites,
a-ha,
Mantronix,
Theoretical Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Human League,
Freddie Wadling,
B.T. Express,
Royal Trux,
The Cramps,
Surgeon,
PIL,
The Move,
Stiv Bators,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sight & Sound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Monochrome Set,
Rakim,
The Angels of Light,
Altered Images,
Fad Gadget,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Agitation Free,
Crooked Eye,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.