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 Libya and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marc Almond to the funk 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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Colin Newman,
Quadrant,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang Gang Dance,
Accadde A,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boz Scaggs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bill Wells,
Dave Gahan,
Theoretical Girls,
Scientists,
Magazine,
Neil Young,
Camberwell Now,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker,
Sun City Girls,
Goldenarms,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tim Buckley,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobby Womack,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joe Smooth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Niagra,
Second Layer,
Babytalk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
Ossler,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Arthur Verocai,
John Foxx,
June of 44,
Moss Icon,
Swell Maps,
The Kinks,
The Moleskins,
The Searchers,
Roxette,
Nirvana,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Angry Samoans,
Von Mondo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Absolute Body Control,
Spandau Ballet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yaz,
Mission of Burma,
John Holt,
Faust,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Zeros,
Excepter,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.