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 Turkmenistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ 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 Trojans to the punk 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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Names,
Sight & Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
The New Christs,
Negative Approach,
Jandek,
Spandau Ballet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
L. Decosne,
Lou Reed,
D'Angelo,
The Busters,
Wolf Eyes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tim Buckley,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Lydon,
Mark Hollis,
Jacob Miller,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells,
Archie Shepp,
The Count Five,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Womack,
Ituana,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Althea and Donna,
Sällskapet,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Angels of Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
Quando Quango,
Tubeway Army,
Television,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marvin Gaye,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Reagan Youth,
Bobby Sherman,
Dennis Brown,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Funkadelic,
The Misunderstood,
Quadrant,
Sun City Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crispy Ambulance,
Simply Red,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pulsallama,
Television Personalities,
Delta 5,
Supertramp,
Adolescents,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lightning Bolt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.