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 Ecuador and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 The United States of America to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis 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?
Soft Cell,
Hashim,
Matthew Bourne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moby Grape,
Minor Threat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fugs,
Loose Ends,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
The United States of America,
The Offenders,
Aaron Thompson,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Audionom,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Moleskins,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Human League,
Easy Going,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Motorama,
Neu!,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visage,
Organ,
OOIOO,
Jawbox,
Carl Craig,
Faraquet,
The Angels of Light,
Yaz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Grauzone,
Babytalk,
a-ha,
Deadbeat,
Swell Maps,
Erykah Badu,
Mo-Dettes,
Rod Modell,
Eric Dolphy,
John Foxx,
The Pop Group,
David Bowie,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Heaven 17,
Maleditus Sound,
Joy Division,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Wake,
Los Fastidios,
Au Pairs,
Quando Quango,
ABBA,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.