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 Kenya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar 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 Rod Modell to the grunge 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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Ultravox,
Sugar Minott,
Rites of Spring,
Unwound,
Qualms,
Yazoo,
Electric Prunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nico,
Joensuu 1685,
Pussy Galore,
Lower 48,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crooked Eye,
Sonic Youth,
the Soft Cell,
Grauzone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Al Stewart,
Urselle,
Infiniti,
Fluxion,
Anthony Braxton,
Deepchord,
Television,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Monolake,
Q and Not U,
Roxy Music,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gun Club,
the Sonics,
Pere Ubu,
Second Layer,
Terry Callier,
Radiopuhelimet,
Slave,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
The Skatalites,
Pantaleimon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Darondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Modern Lovers,
Angry Samoans,
Black Sheep,
John Foxx,
Blancmange,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pulsallama,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Smog,
Camberwell Now,
E-Dancer,
Whodini,
Cheater Slicks,
Aloha Tigers,
Fela Kuti,
Soul II Soul,
Boredoms,
Gang Starr,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.