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 Thailand and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 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 The Cure to the disco 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Motions,
Harry Pussy,
Flipper,
The Shadows of Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slave,
Whodini,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rapeman,
Bad Manners,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cybotron,
The Monochrome Set,
Boz Scaggs,
Rosa Yemen,
Freddie Wadling,
Josef K,
Albert Ayler,
Black Bananas,
Drexciya,
June Days,
Fluxion,
The Last Poets,
the Germs,
Hardrive,
John Foxx,
Crime,
Panda Bear,
Bill Wells,
Severed Heads,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ituana,
Stiv Bators,
The Grass Roots,
Main Source,
Mantronix,
Motorama,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mojo Men,
Stetsasonic,
Alphaville,
Television,
Charles Mingus,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blake Baxter,
Niagra,
Los Fastidios,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Electric Prunes,
Sun City Girls,
Agitation Free,
Sällskapet,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quando Quango,
Thompson Twins,
Blossom Toes,
Franke,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.