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 Namibia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 snare 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 Chrome to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Stooges,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Television Personalities,
Monolake,
Funky Four + One,
Bizarre Inc.,
The American Breed,
Gang Starr,
Barry Ungar,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Human League,
Arab on Radar,
Kaleidoscope,
Johnny Clarke,
Babytalk,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cosmic Jokers,
World's Most,
The J.B.'s,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gladiators,
Eyeless In Gaza,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
U.S. Maple,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sparks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick May,
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
Robert Wyatt,
Flamin' Groovies,
DNA,
Half Japanese,
a-ha,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Main Source,
Erykah Badu,
Rufus Thomas,
DJ Sneak,
Grauzone,
Danielle Patucci,
The Searchers,
Underground Resistance,
Livin' Joy,
Anakelly,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Quando Quango,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Electric Prunes,
Darondo,
The Zeros,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Funkadelic,
Junior Murvin,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Rakim,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.