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 Guyana and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wasted Youth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amazonics,
Matthew Halsall,
The Slits,
Joyce Sims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
ABBA,
Oblivians,
Scan 7,
Goldenarms,
Clear Light,
Magazine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Young Rascals,
Stetsasonic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Music Machine,
B.T. Express,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Neil Young,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joey Negro,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Skaos,
Janne Schatter,
Swans,
Wire,
Crispy Ambulance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
UT,
Anthony Braxton,
La Düsseldorf,
Zapp,
The Invisible,
Lyres,
Los Fastidios,
Rotary Connection,
Scrapy,
Piero Umiliani,
The Monks,
The Buckinghams,
Crooked Eye,
Yaz,
Roxette,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eurythmics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Index,
The Velvet Underground,
Erykah Badu,
Outsiders,
Lower 48,
Bauhaus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun Ra,
PIL,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Slits,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.