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 Dominica and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Livin' Joy to the techno 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Zapp,
The Vogues,
the Slits,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blossom Toes,
Sonny Sharrock,
DJ Sneak,
Gabor Szabo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Spandau Ballet,
The Divine Comedy,
Junior Murvin,
Sarah Menescal,
The Red Krayola,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Agitation Free,
Clear Light,
Agent Orange,
The Doors,
Nils Olav,
The Offenders,
Blake Baxter,
Circle Jerks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gong,
Pylon,
Robert Görl,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cal Tjader,
Iggy Pop,
Slick Rick,
Neil Young,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Swans,
Moebius,
E-Dancer,
Tres Demented,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soft Cell,
Duran Duran,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gories,
The Smoke,
CMW,
Aloha Tigers,
Fat Boys,
Monolake,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
John Lydon,
Alison Limerick,
Tim Buckley,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.