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 Pakistan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Tom Boy to the grime 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Laurel Aitken,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Soft Cell,
The Index,
Monolake,
Rod Modell,
The Searchers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Five Americans,
Visage,
Radiohead,
Simply Red,
Darondo,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Pus,
Derrick May,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Prince Buster,
Jandek,
Angry Samoans,
Marine Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Franke,
Sixth Finger,
Wolf Eyes,
Black Sheep,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
Vainqueur,
Joe Finger,
Q65,
Arthur Verocai,
Rotary Connection,
Neu!,
Gregory Isaacs,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Niagra,
The Fugs,
Qualms,
KRS-One,
David Axelrod,
D'Angelo,
Crooked Eye,
a-ha,
Khruangbin,
Eden Ahbez,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mars,
Alphaville,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cramps,
The Smoke,
Ronan,
The Buckinghams,
Patti Smith,
Janne Schatter,
Oblivians,
The Human League,
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.