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 Honduras and from Tokyo.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator 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 Bobby Sherman to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Skaos,
Swell Maps,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gang Green,
Loose Ends,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aloha Tigers,
Alice Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxy Music,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Searchers,
The Fortunes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dennis Brown,
Camouflage,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
David McCallum,
Robert Görl,
Jerry's Kids,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
EPMD,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Arab on Radar,
Half Japanese,
Warren Ellis,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Shuggie Otis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jandek,
Radiohead,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pop Group,
Pagans,
Audionom,
Radio Birdman,
A Certain Ratio,
Gabor Szabo,
Symarip,
Monks,
Joe Finger,
Mad Mike,
Swans,
X-102,
Danielle Patucci,
John Coltrane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Interpol,
The Buckinghams,
Porter Ricks,
The Dirtbombs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.