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 Algeria and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 La Düsseldorf to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Newcleus,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
Mars,
The Selecter,
Wire,
Television Personalities,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pole,
Vainqueur,
Monks,
Sound Behaviour,
Pylon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Shoche,
Little Man,
MDC,
Mr. Review,
Ornette Coleman,
In Retrospect,
Dave Gahan,
Angry Samoans,
Brand Nubian,
The Mojo Men,
Danielle Patucci,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
H. Thieme,
EPMD,
Rakim,
Althea and Donna,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Q65,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pagans,
Eddi Front,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Teasers,
Chrome,
Max Romeo,
Skarface,
the Association,
Babytalk,
Siglo XX,
Loose Ends,
Patti Smith,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Victims,
Con Funk Shun,
The American Breed,
Pantaleimon,
Model 500,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Black Moon,
Drexciya,
Camouflage,
Agitation Free,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.