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 Taiwan and from Beijing.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin 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 Wings to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Gap Band,
Delta 5,
The J.B.'s,
The Misunderstood,
Kas Product,
Symarip,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brass Construction,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Barracudas,
Mandrill,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kaleidoscope,
The Invisible,
The Mojo Men,
Anthony Braxton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mr. Review,
Smog,
Pole,
Monks,
The Happenings,
Black Flag,
Excepter,
Chris & Cosey,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Desert Stars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Robert Hood,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Beau Brummels,
Quando Quango,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Bananas,
Hardrive,
Leonard Cohen,
Guru Guru,
Jandek,
Make Up,
The Offenders,
Kurtis Blow,
H. Thieme,
Josef K,
Flash Fearless,
Das Ding,
Franke,
Stetsasonic,
Main Source,
Thompson Twins,
Television,
Hoover,
Amazonics,
Scientists,
the Swans,
the Germs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Archie Shepp,
Blake Baxter,
The Fuzztones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.