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 El Salvador and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm 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 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Qualms,
The Count Five,
Lower 48,
Trumans Water,
Second Layer,
Mark Hollis,
The United States of America,
Radio Birdman,
Icehouse,
Michelle Simonal,
Janne Schatter,
Jandek,
The Kinks,
Bauhaus,
New Order,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
8 Eyed Spy,
T.S.O.L.,
The Techniques,
Pole,
Rod Modell,
The Knickerbockers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Archie Shepp,
Jacob Miller,
Grandmaster Flash,
Radiohead,
Camouflage,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blancmange,
Ponytail,
Mr. Review,
Dave Gahan,
Brand Nubian,
Electric Prunes,
X-101,
ABC,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobby Sherman,
Delta 5,
Visage,
Boz Scaggs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jimmy McGriff,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
The Gap Band,
Marc Almond,
Lee Hazlewood,
Iggy Pop,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Malaria!,
Basic Channel,
The Vogues,
Skriet,
Yellowson,
The Fortunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.