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 Italy and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Basic Channel to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
DNA,
Scion,
Lou Reed,
Eric Copeland,
Blancmange,
The Durutti Column,
Rhythm & Sound,
Yellowson,
Reuben Wilson,
Au Pairs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Spandau Ballet,
Janne Schatter,
Aaron Thompson,
Charles Mingus,
Main Source,
June Days,
Roxette,
Franke,
Das Ding,
This Heat,
Sandy B,
Hot Snakes,
R.M.O.,
Patti Smith,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Stockholm Monsters,
Los Fastidios,
The Sound,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang On A Can,
Mo-Dettes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Stooges,
Brick,
Marshall Jefferson,
CMW,
Pantytec,
Talk Talk,
Shoche,
Eurythmics,
Ten City,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Chrome,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Outsiders,
cv313,
Essential Logic,
Jandek,
Mandrill,
Mars,
Glambeats Corp.,
Man Eating Sloth,
Laurel Aitken,
Sight & Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Nirvana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.