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 Ireland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin 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 Pet Shop Boys to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rapeman,
Eli Mardock,
Graham Central Station,
Glenn Branca,
Gong,
Roxy Music,
June of 44,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Organ,
The Gories,
Toni Rubio,
Gang of Four,
Yazoo,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Womack,
The Fall,
Marvin Gaye,
kango's stein massive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sound Behaviour,
Suicide,
Peter and Kerry,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed,
The Young Rascals,
The Dirtbombs,
Robert Görl,
Bad Manners,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Todd Rundgren,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yellowson,
the Germs,
Joy Division,
Eurythmics,
Matthew Halsall,
Funky Four + One,
Ten City,
Monolake,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MC5,
Sun City Girls,
Nico,
Marmalade,
Minor Threat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fugs,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cure,
New York Dolls,
Kurtis Blow,
Colin Newman,
Danielle Patucci,
Circle Jerks,
Marc Almond,
Bootsy Collins,
Johnny Osbourne,
Young Marble Giants,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.