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 Canada and from Taipei.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
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 guitar 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 Interpol to the jazz 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Quando Quango,
Skriet,
Technova,
The Evens,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chrome,
Anakelly,
the Association,
Silicon Teens,
Minor Threat,
Ronan,
Marmalade,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dawn Penn,
DJ Style,
Crime,
Schoolly D,
Iggy Pop,
Quadrant,
The Gories,
Depeche Mode,
Popol Vuh,
The Mojo Men,
Rufus Thomas,
MC5,
Alison Limerick,
Rotary Connection,
Pulsallama,
Tomorrow,
Pylon,
Neil Young,
Maleditus Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gong,
The Detroit Cobras,
Youth Brigade,
Livin' Joy,
Warsaw,
Man Parrish,
Sixth Finger,
The Barracudas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scott Walker,
Crash Course in Science,
The Velvet Underground,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radio Birdman,
The Techniques,
The Fortunes,
Bluetip,
Fatback Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mummies,
Gichy Dan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.