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 Luxembourg and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
John Foxx,
Visage,
The Star Department,
Monks,
Suburban Knight,
Ken Boothe,
Kaleidoscope,
Tres Demented,
The Mojo Men,
The Fugs,
Eurythmics,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Basic Channel,
Robert Hood,
Newcleus,
Pharoah Sanders,
Severed Heads,
Bronski Beat,
The Motions,
Scion,
Massinfluence,
The Dead C,
Arab on Radar,
Fatback Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Smog,
Wally Richardson,
Juan Atkins,
Aloha Tigers,
Average White Band,
Mark Hollis,
June Days,
Sound Behaviour,
Lee Hazlewood,
UT,
Zapp,
Bizarre Inc.,
Spandau Ballet,
Inner City,
Saccharine Trust,
Depeche Mode,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Erykah Badu,
K-Klass,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flash Fearless,
Avey Tare,
Duran Duran,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Lynne,
Kurtis Blow,
The Electric Prunes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dawn Penn,
the Human League,
Section 25,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pulsallama,
Sugar Minott,
Skaos,
Mission of Burma,
Rotary Connection,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.