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 Turkmenistan and from Calgary.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron 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 EPMD to the techno 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
JFA,
China Crisis,
Masters at Work,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kas Product,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sound Behaviour,
Lalo Schifrin,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television,
Zero Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Offenders,
The Smoke,
the Swans,
Flipper,
Warren Ellis,
Nils Olav,
Tim Buckley,
Ituana,
Rhythm & Sound,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed,
The Gun Club,
Letta Mbulu,
DJ Style,
The J.B.'s,
The Walker Brothers,
Prince Buster,
Echospace,
Aswad,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Moon,
The Move,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Unwound,
MC5,
Television Personalities,
The Kinks,
This Heat,
Barrington Levy,
Country Teasers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ken Boothe,
Kool Moe Dee,
Visage,
The Cowsills,
Roy Ayers,
Index,
Yellowson,
Porter Ricks,
Cybotron,
The Knickerbockers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.