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 Oman and from Manila.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro 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 Jimmy McGriff to the jazz 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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
Main Source,
Kayak,
The Pop Group,
A Certain Ratio,
Roxy Music,
The Tremeloes,
DNA,
China Crisis,
Bill Near,
Anthony Braxton,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fortunes,
Idris Muhammad,
Metal Thangz,
Unrelated Segments,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Todd Rundgren,
Jerry's Kids,
Easy Going,
The Seeds,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Massinfluence,
L. Decosne,
Mantronix,
Spandau Ballet,
The Young Rascals,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
Minor Threat,
Gang Green,
Gang of Four,
Soft Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Black Flag,
Barrington Levy,
Piero Umiliani,
Scientists,
The Knickerbockers,
Moss Icon,
Zero Boys,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Trumans Water,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bauhaus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Interpol,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David Axelrod,
Urselle,
the Germs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Glenn Branca,
Aaron Thompson,
The Techniques,
Warren Ellis,
Wire,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.