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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Jeff Mills,
Davy DMX,
Soft Cell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Finger,
Skaos,
Monks,
Oblivians,
Deadbeat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gladiators,
Massinfluence,
The Happenings,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Los Fastidios,
This Heat,
Amon Düül,
Cymande,
The Velvet Underground,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Christie,
Gang of Four,
John Lydon,
Organ,
Lucky Dragons,
Japan,
Dark Day,
Soul Sonic Force,
Malaria!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Circle Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Howard Jones,
Lyres,
Blancmange,
Jimmy McGriff,
Essential Logic,
Sparks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Connie Case,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy Collins,
Kenny Larkin,
Nirvana,
D'Angelo,
The Kinks,
Liliput,
Public Enemy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ponytail,
The Angels of Light,
Unrelated Segments,
The Barracudas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sound,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.