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 Pakistan and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Move to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Au Pairs,
Maleditus Sound,
Sonic Youth,
Dennis Brown,
Arthur Verocai,
Swans,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Angels of Light,
Von Mondo,
The Doors,
David McCallum,
Con Funk Shun,
Gerry Rafferty,
Thompson Twins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Albert Ayler,
Jacob Miller,
Black Flag,
In Retrospect,
Bush Tetras,
Roxette,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cluster,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ronnie Foster,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marvin Gaye,
The Moody Blues,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sam Rivers,
Desert Stars,
Toni Rubio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun City Girls,
Derrick May,
The United States of America,
Faust,
LL Cool J,
The Stooges,
This Heat,
The Wake,
Eddi Front,
Skaos,
Rakim,
Faraquet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bizarre Inc.,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Absolute Body Control,
Deakin,
Yellowson,
John Coltrane,
Oneida,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tubeway Army,
The Grass Roots,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.