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 Armenia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 Deepchord to the disco 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Porter Ricks,
Ohio Players,
Groovy Waters,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
Depeche Mode,
Kas Product,
X-Ray Spex,
Gabor Szabo,
John Cale,
Banda Bassotti,
Agitation Free,
Crooked Eye,
Crispy Ambulance,
Livin' Joy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Interpol,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gories,
Urselle,
Excepter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pussy Galore,
Pet Shop Boys,
DNA,
Soft Cell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sound Behaviour,
Jerry's Kids,
Section 25,
The Misunderstood,
Connie Case,
Tres Demented,
Mr. Review,
Moby Grape,
Das Ding,
The Leaves,
Janne Schatter,
Sister Nancy,
Country Teasers,
Prince Buster,
Crash Course in Science,
Saccharine Trust,
David Bowie,
The Electric Prunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Boz Scaggs,
Pylon,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dead Boys,
The Stooges,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pierre Henry,
Eddi Front,
Mark Hollis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Absolute Body Control,
Oneida,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.