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 Jordan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 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 Camberwell Now to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Alphaville,
One Last Wish,
Essential Logic,
Alice Coltrane,
Skarface,
The Move,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Au Pairs,
Rod Modell,
New Order,
Interpol,
Neu!,
Khruangbin,
Mad Mike,
DJ Sneak,
Matthew Bourne,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang Starr,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
JFA,
Moby Grape,
Archie Shepp,
Wings,
Scientists,
Television,
The Fortunes,
Hoover,
Roxette,
Hasil Adkins,
Lou Reed,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Dave Clark Five,
Donald Byrd,
Michelle Simonal,
Duran Duran,
The Music Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stetsasonic,
James White and The Blacks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Agitation Free,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
MC5,
Grauzone,
The Kinks,
Moss Icon,
The Neon Judgement,
Davy DMX,
cv313,
Robert Hood,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
Mars,
Animal Collective,
Juan Atkins,
John Cale,
Ice-T,
Gerry Rafferty,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.