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 Mauritania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Subhumans to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Dave Gahan,
Adolescents,
The Skatalites,
One Last Wish,
The Slackers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Throbbing Gristle,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Letta Mbulu,
Rotary Connection,
Peter & Gordon,
Scientists,
Cybotron,
F. McDonald,
The Saints,
The Smiths,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mad Mike,
The Music Machine,
Wire,
The Velvet Underground,
Loose Ends,
Parry Music,
Don Cherry,
Spoonie Gee,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minny Pops,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Connie Case,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
David McCallum,
Animal Collective,
Black Sheep,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
The Martian,
Joe Finger,
Main Source,
Depeche Mode,
Sparks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Agitation Free,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chris Corsano,
Liliput,
Amon Düül,
Procol Harum,
Lyres,
X-101,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dead Boys,
the Human League,
The Fall,
The Sonics,
Tom Boy,
Howard Jones,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.