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 Grenada and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the rock 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jerry's Kids,
Joe Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
ABC,
Cybotron,
Leonard Cohen,
Aural Exciters,
Nils Olav,
Mantronix,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crispy Ambulance,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-102,
Faraquet,
the Human League,
Colin Newman,
Buzzcocks,
Gang Green,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gastr Del Sol,
Section 25,
Chrome,
The Techniques,
Sun City Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
David Axelrod,
The Doors,
June of 44,
Matthew Halsall,
Joey Negro,
Lalann,
In Retrospect,
Monolake,
Davy DMX,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ten City,
Fifty Foot Hose,
MC5,
FM Einheit,
Interpol,
Stiv Bators,
The Leaves,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Toasters,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fire Engines,
Joyce Sims,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oblivians,
Throbbing Gristle,
PIL,
Zero Boys,
John Foxx,
Arthur Verocai,
Scratch Acid,
LL Cool J,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.