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 Greece and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
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 güiro 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 Blancmange to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Hardrive,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Panda Bear,
Public Enemy,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Babytalk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chrome,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terry Callier,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Talk Talk,
Saccharine Trust,
Livin' Joy,
Scrapy,
Janne Schatter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fortunes,
The Associates,
Bill Wells,
EPMD,
10cc,
Sonic Youth,
Aural Exciters,
Hot Snakes,
Suicide,
Albert Ayler,
Darondo,
Neil Young,
Technova,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Germs,
Easy Going,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Count Five,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pagans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bluetip,
Deadbeat,
Rosa Yemen,
The Monks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Slave,
Gang Green,
Pole,
Agent Orange,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sight & Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
H. Thieme,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Severed Heads,
The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps.
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.