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 Guinea-Bissau and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 spring reverb 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 Dual Sessions to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Grauzone,
Faraquet,
The Buckinghams,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oblivians,
Faust,
OOIOO,
Deepchord,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chris & Cosey,
Altered Images,
The Moleskins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Young Marble Giants,
Malaria!,
Cybotron,
Marmalade,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Magazine,
Rites of Spring,
Procol Harum,
The Happenings,
Black Flag,
Arcadia,
Derrick Morgan,
Massinfluence,
Godley & Creme,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dave Clark Five,
Guru Guru,
Fugazi,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
Josef K,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Y Pants,
CMW,
Dead Boys,
E-Dancer,
Amazonics,
Connie Case,
the Sonics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Negative Approach,
Lower 48,
Ornette Coleman,
Nick Fraelich,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dirtbombs,
Sound Behaviour,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.