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 Singapore and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Modern Lovers to the grunge 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jerry's Kids,
Deepchord,
The Monks,
Lakeside,
Fad Gadget,
Roy Ayers,
Jawbox,
Isaac Hayes,
Connie Case,
Arab on Radar,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mark Hollis,
The Slits,
Schoolly D,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Echospace,
Nils Olav,
The Seeds,
Black Flag,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Susan Cadogan,
Gichy Dan,
MDC,
Monks,
Eric Dolphy,
Suicide,
A Certain Ratio,
Tomorrow,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun City Girls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Holt,
kango's stein massive,
Scratch Acid,
DJ Style,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Grass Roots,
Ronan,
Sandy B,
Alison Limerick,
Yaz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Make Up,
Soft Machine,
Khruangbin,
Buzzcocks,
Patti Smith,
The Remains,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gong,
The Leaves,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
Aswad,
Toni Rubio,
Howard Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.