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 Macedonia and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Terrestrial Tones to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gabor Szabo,
John Holt,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Saints,
Crash Course in Science,
Rites of Spring,
Fugazi,
Leonard Cohen,
The Wake,
David McCallum,
ABC,
The Move,
Mad Mike,
Guru Guru,
Rotary Connection,
Babytalk,
Buzzcocks,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris Corsano,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mars,
Thee Headcoats,
Grauzone,
Laurel Aitken,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barbara Tucker,
Kurtis Blow,
The Birthday Party,
Parry Music,
Don Cherry,
Kerrie Biddell,
Smog,
T. Rex,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Skatalites,
The Real Kids,
Dawn Penn,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Livin' Joy,
Matthew Bourne,
Section 25,
The Monochrome Set,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Association,
the Germs,
Liliput,
Unrelated Segments,
Gil Scott Heron,
Byron Stingily,
Arcadia,
Japan,
Ponytail,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wolf Eyes,
K-Klass,
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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.