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 Brazil and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator 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 Maleditus Sound to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Danielle Patucci,
The Monks,
Amon Düül II,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
Amon Düül,
Electric Light Orchestra,
New Order,
Harmonia,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David McCallum,
Soft Cell,
Television Personalities,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantaleimon,
Minny Pops,
Tommy Roe,
The American Breed,
The Sound,
The Cure,
Quadrant,
The Gladiators,
Grey Daturas,
the Germs,
Metal Thangz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Letta Mbulu,
The Zeros,
Darondo,
Pulsallama,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fad Gadget,
Joyce Sims,
Vladislav Delay,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tom Boy,
Silicon Teens,
Circle Jerks,
Eric Copeland,
Freddie Wadling,
John Holt,
Alton Ellis,
Procol Harum,
The Busters,
Robert Görl,
Boredoms,
Skriet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roxette,
The Raincoats,
The Last Poets,
Joey Negro,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.