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 Tanzania and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 X-101 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
CMW,
New York Dolls,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fortunes,
Shoche,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sam Rivers,
Con Funk Shun,
Stereo Dub,
Excepter,
Wire,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Slits,
MC5,
Oblivians,
Faust,
Urselle,
In Retrospect,
ABBA,
FM Einheit,
The Victims,
Sexual Harrassment,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
X-101,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wasted Youth,
Qualms,
Dennis Brown,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Q and Not U,
Technova,
Roxy Music,
Suburban Knight,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kayak,
Bobby Sherman,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Basic Channel,
The Gun Club,
Black Flag,
Ultravox,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Green,
Ohio Players,
Bush Tetras,
Matthew Bourne,
Oneida,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
The Divine Comedy,
Moss Icon,
Kurtis Blow,
The Move,
Man Parrish,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Reagan Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.