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 Malaysia and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 marimba 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Unrelated Segments,
Ohio Players,
Pussy Galore,
Public Enemy,
Barry Ungar,
Terry Callier,
The Trojans,
The American Breed,
The Moleskins,
Metal Thangz,
David Axelrod,
Chris Corsano,
Throbbing Gristle,
Man Parrish,
Massinfluence,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Copeland,
Unwound,
Joyce Sims,
The Pop Group,
Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Magazine,
Black Pus,
Lyres,
The Dead C,
Camberwell Now,
DJ Style,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Cale,
Scion,
Robert Görl,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marmalade,
Yaz,
Janne Schatter,
Moss Icon,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rosa Yemen,
The Pretty Things,
CMW,
Maleditus Sound,
Supertramp,
Duran Duran,
T.S.O.L.,
Saccharine Trust,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ten City,
Lou Christie,
Kas Product,
Scratch Acid,
Cheater Slicks,
Drexciya,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.