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 Lebanon and from London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron 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 Amazonics 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lyres,
Steve Hackett,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Skaos,
David Bowie,
Talk Talk,
The Litter,
Godley & Creme,
the Germs,
The Gun Club,
The Divine Comedy,
Wolf Eyes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Zero Boys,
Franke,
The Durutti Column,
Ludus,
Graham Central Station,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang Gang Dance,
Supertramp,
Ultra Naté,
Von Mondo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Görl,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Beau Brummels,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
Kayak,
Roxy Music,
The Shadows of Knight,
Skriet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oblivians,
Harry Pussy,
kango's stein massive,
Pagans,
Yaz,
Marine Girls,
Skarface,
The Dead C,
Mad Mike,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erykah Badu,
Mantronix,
John Cale,
Moby Grape,
Bauhaus,
Duran Duran,
Man Parrish,
Camberwell Now,
Sixth Finger,
Half Japanese,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.