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 Belarus and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Holger Czukay 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 This Heat to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Sarah Menescal,
Hardrive,
The Barracudas,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Flash Fearless,
Arcadia,
Lower 48,
In Retrospect,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Von Mondo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Theoretical Girls,
Joe Finger,
Khruangbin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wasted Youth,
The Neon Judgement,
Gregory Isaacs,
Funkadelic,
Qualms,
Ohio Players,
Bad Manners,
Con Funk Shun,
Q and Not U,
The Remains,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cybotron,
Babytalk,
Arab on Radar,
Nils Olav,
The Move,
Sonny Sharrock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Modern Lovers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Depeche Mode,
Bootsy Collins,
Livin' Joy,
Eli Mardock,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mad Mike,
Ituana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Saccharine Trust,
Ice-T,
Joe Smooth,
Joey Negro,
Soul II Soul,
Pet Shop Boys,
Radiohead,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Don Cherry,
David Axelrod,
Sex Pistols,
Lindisfarne,
The Velvet Underground,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.