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 United States and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Half Japanese to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
The Red Krayola,
Alison Limerick,
The Modern Lovers,
Rakim,
Shuggie Otis,
Y Pants,
Yaz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pussy Galore,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Hood,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
JFA,
Chris Corsano,
The Names,
Surgeon,
Prince Buster,
World's Most,
Matthew Bourne,
Dave Gahan,
Pere Ubu,
The Gap Band,
Smog,
Motorama,
The Moody Blues,
AZ,
Brick,
Todd Rundgren,
Panda Bear,
10cc,
The Happenings,
Bluetip,
The United States of America,
Niagra,
Audionom,
Deepchord,
Scratch Acid,
Alice Coltrane,
Minutemen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Severed Heads,
The Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mandrill,
Curtis Mayfield,
Harry Pussy,
Nils Olav,
The Young Rascals,
John Coltrane,
The Slackers,
Lindisfarne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Bananas,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.