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 Mexico and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Malaria! to the electroclash 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs 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?
Absolute Body Control,
Eric Copeland,
Cybotron,
Mars,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bootsy Collins,
Matthew Bourne,
T.S.O.L.,
Q65,
Lou Reed,
Sun City Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pierre Henry,
Television Personalities,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faust,
Cluster,
Michelle Simonal,
The Vogues,
Marine Girls,
Hasil Adkins,
Urselle,
Hot Snakes,
Dark Day,
Fat Boys,
The Music Machine,
Blake Baxter,
Mad Mike,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dead Boys,
Ultravox,
Procol Harum,
Dual Sessions,
The Remains,
The Modern Lovers,
The Selecter,
Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter,
Slave,
Franke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ohio Players,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
Symarip,
The Monochrome Set,
Eurythmics,
Althea and Donna,
Sällskapet,
Alphaville,
Yaz,
DJ Style,
Patti Smith,
Nick Fraelich,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jeff Mills,
Crime,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.