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 Cape Verde and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fela Kuti to the rock 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harry Pussy,
Black Sheep,
Can,
David McCallum,
Marmalade,
Groovy Waters,
Tres Demented,
Scientists,
Joensuu 1685,
June Days,
Peter & Gordon,
The J.B.'s,
Khruangbin,
The Angels of Light,
Smog,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Morten Harket,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
MC5,
Urselle,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Television Personalities,
Blake Baxter,
Ten City,
Dead Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gang Green,
ABC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zero Boys,
Rosa Yemen,
the Slits,
Chris & Cosey,
Monolake,
Guru Guru,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Electric Prunes,
Lindisfarne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Freddie Wadling,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sarah Menescal,
Man Parrish,
Cybotron,
Cymande,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terry Callier,
Bronski Beat,
Sonic Youth,
Nick Fraelich,
Agent Orange,
Sex Pistols,
Procol Harum,
Japan,
Altered Images,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brick,
Dorothy Ashby,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.