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 Bangladesh and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Piero Umiliani to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All The Slits 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 punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Ten City,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Wake,
One Last Wish,
Dual Sessions,
Soft Machine,
Amon Düül II,
Shoche,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sixth Finger,
Cameo,
Susan Cadogan,
Pierre Henry,
New York Dolls,
EPMD,
Deadbeat,
Vladislav Delay,
The Gap Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sight & Sound,
Delta 5,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Litter,
The Fortunes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Whodini,
Gang of Four,
Altered Images,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Rundgren,
Animal Collective,
Morten Harket,
Gang Starr,
Barrington Levy,
The Dead C,
New Order,
Dark Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Terry,
The Gories,
Infiniti,
Youth Brigade,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Alarm Clocks,
Malaria!,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Archie Shepp,
E-Dancer,
Simply Red,
Junior Murvin,
U.S. Maple,
Pere Ubu,
Visage,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ludus,
Aloha Tigers,
Freddie Wadling,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funkadelic,
Al Stewart,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.