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 Fiji and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro 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 Harmonia to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
The Gladiators,
Michelle Simonal,
The Gories,
Neil Young,
Intrusion,
Stetsasonic,
The Fire Engines,
Cheater Slicks,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobby Womack,
MC5,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Funkadelic,
Quantec,
Juan Atkins,
Bronski Beat,
Ten City,
New Order,
K-Klass,
Gang Starr,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Shuggie Otis,
Cal Tjader,
Cybotron,
Massinfluence,
Q65,
The Five Americans,
The Standells,
Porter Ricks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hardrive,
Josef K,
Guru Guru,
Wire,
Monolake,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pole,
Marshall Jefferson,
Absolute Body Control,
Sixth Finger,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Roxette,
Max Romeo,
Maurizio,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
James White and The Blacks,
Mo-Dettes,
Dead Boys,
Qualms,
FM Einheit,
The Last Poets,
Roger Hodgson,
Stiv Bators,
Smog,
Suburban Knight,
The Stooges,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.