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 Brunei and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Stockholm Monsters to the punk 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
New Age Steppers,
Vainqueur,
Don Cherry,
Shoche,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Green,
The Monks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Moleskins,
The Modern Lovers,
The Standells,
Trumans Water,
Fear,
Deepchord,
The Misunderstood,
Marcia Griffiths,
Royal Trux,
Monolake,
Quadrant,
Kurtis Blow,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Warren Ellis,
Henry Cow,
E-Dancer,
Schoolly D,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
D'Angelo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Intrusion,
Model 500,
Robert Wyatt,
Yazoo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
World's Most,
Niagra,
CMW,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
La Düsseldorf,
Surgeon,
Liliput,
Curtis Mayfield,
Darondo,
Scientists,
Clear Light,
Can,
Lyres,
Pulsallama,
Circle Jerks,
Sound Behaviour,
Essential Logic,
Cymande,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bang On A Can,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stetsasonic,
L. Decosne,
Steve Hackett,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.