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 Mali and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Basic Channel to the jazz 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Basic Channel,
Donald Byrd,
Second Layer,
Oblivians,
Pole,
Echospace,
Siglo XX,
F. McDonald,
Brick,
Faust,
Joensuu 1685,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thompson Twins,
The Standells,
The Victims,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Index,
Zero Boys,
Qualms,
Sällskapet,
Amon Düül,
New Order,
Sandy B,
Jeff Mills,
Patti Smith,
The Offenders,
Mr. Review,
The Happenings,
Section 25,
Dave Gahan,
Kaleidoscope,
Gastr Del Sol,
Terry Callier,
David Bowie,
China Crisis,
The Slits,
The Residents,
Pharoah Sanders,
Man Parrish,
Pere Ubu,
Zapp,
The Saints,
Ludus,
The Knickerbockers,
Bauhaus,
The Buckinghams,
Barrington Levy,
Hashim,
Masters at Work,
Susan Cadogan,
Royal Trux,
Sun City Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Aaron Thompson,
Wally Richardson,
Rites of Spring,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soul II Soul,
The Selecter,
Todd Rundgren,
Sun Ra,
Marvin Gaye,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.