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 Comoros and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes 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 Absolute Body Control to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Kaleidoscope,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Germs,
Underground Resistance,
A Certain Ratio,
Drexciya,
Scientists,
Dual Sessions,
Guru Guru,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fuzztones,
Parry Music,
Eden Ahbez,
The Gories,
MDC,
Lower 48,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pet Shop Boys,
R.M.O.,
Pere Ubu,
Circle Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
X-Ray Spex,
Malaria!,
Simply Red,
JFA,
Mars,
The Buckinghams,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Monolake,
The Blues Magoos,
Joyce Sims,
Harmonia,
Das Ding,
Pantaleimon,
Deepchord,
the Soft Cell,
Bobby Womack,
Dark Day,
Kurtis Blow,
Bronski Beat,
Sparks,
Dawn Penn,
Metal Thangz,
Theoretical Girls,
The Dead C,
Nick Fraelich,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Angry Samoans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Tremeloes,
Blossom Toes,
Quantec,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Delta 5,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.