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 Vanuatu and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bluetip to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gun Club,
John Holt,
Alphaville,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Monks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fad Gadget,
Depeche Mode,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Icehouse,
Au Pairs,
Zapp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DJ Style,
China Crisis,
The Divine Comedy,
Nik Kershaw,
Vainqueur,
Theoretical Girls,
The Techniques,
Schoolly D,
Los Fastidios,
The Barracudas,
Pantytec,
Lyres,
Jacques Brel,
Skaos,
Patti Smith,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Robert Hood,
Lalann,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Busters,
Minny Pops,
New Order,
Stiv Bators,
Lungfish,
Juan Atkins,
Bobby Byrd,
Aswad,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spoonie Gee,
Sällskapet,
B.T. Express,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Mummies,
Sam Rivers,
New Age Steppers,
Joyce Sims,
Television,
The Moody Blues,
Deakin,
KRS-One,
U.S. Maple,
Can,
FM Einheit,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.