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 Thailand and from New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the jazz 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Bad Manners,
The Index,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Flash Fearless,
Fat Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Duran Duran,
The Moody Blues,
Make Up,
Organ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camouflage,
Kas Product,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Music Machine,
Colin Newman,
China Crisis,
Anakelly,
Pierre Henry,
The Fugs,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Saccharine Trust,
Procol Harum,
Isaac Hayes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Section 25,
Pylon,
Tom Boy,
Aaron Thompson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jandek,
Darondo,
Niagra,
Joyce Sims,
The Real Kids,
Aswad,
cv313,
Peter & Gordon,
Vainqueur,
E-Dancer,
Country Teasers,
Minutemen,
Letta Mbulu,
Warsaw,
Interpol,
Mission of Burma,
Janne Schatter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thompson Twins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Moon,
Sex Pistols,
Donny Hathaway,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.