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 Kuwait and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin 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 Ronan to the rock 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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marvin Gaye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Graham Central Station,
The Moleskins,
Pussy Galore,
Josef K,
The Grass Roots,
Warren Ellis,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rosa Yemen,
Massinfluence,
Fear,
The Fuzztones,
Vainqueur,
Quadrant,
the Sonics,
Ultravox,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bauhaus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Danielle Patucci,
Bush Tetras,
Bronski Beat,
The Evens,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Spoonie Gee,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Au Pairs,
Blossom Toes,
Aural Exciters,
The Flesh Eaters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chris Corsano,
A Certain Ratio,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Los Fastidios,
The Detroit Cobras,
New Order,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mars,
David McCallum,
Unwound,
Derrick May,
Rekid,
the Swans,
Roxette,
Robert Wyatt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Section 25,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Normal,
Roxy Music,
Talk Talk,
Delta 5,
The Saints,
The Raincoats,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
Thompson Twins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.