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 Nepal and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Audionom to the punk 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Tommy Roe,
Fela Kuti,
Eurythmics,
Skaos,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fad Gadget,
Susan Cadogan,
Ultra Naté,
Ten City,
The Move,
The Saints,
The Slits,
David Bowie,
Average White Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Basic Channel,
Infiniti,
Bill Wells,
E-Dancer,
Flipper,
Sonic Youth,
cv313,
Crime,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Davy DMX,
Essential Logic,
Rufus Thomas,
Los Fastidios,
The Wake,
New Age Steppers,
Visage,
Dave Gahan,
Charles Mingus,
Yusef Lateef,
Albert Ayler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kayak,
Ronan,
a-ha,
T. Rex,
Cheater Slicks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett,
Agitation Free,
Roxette,
The Offenders,
David McCallum,
Porter Ricks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sam Rivers,
Pere Ubu,
Kas Product,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Television,
Audionom,
Make Up,
Monks,
Judy Mowatt,
The Moleskins,
Mo-Dettes,
Tom Boy,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.