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 Turkey and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soft Machine to the dance 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jandek,
Brothers Johnson,
The Tremeloes,
Deadbeat,
The Angels of Light,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ten City,
Peter & Gordon,
Q65,
Yaz,
The Fall,
John Cale,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Reuben Wilson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Television,
The Barracudas,
The Seeds,
Graham Central Station,
Blancmange,
The Grass Roots,
Nico,
Chris Corsano,
The American Breed,
Sam Rivers,
Amazonics,
Tears for Fears,
Bauhaus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Audionom,
Radiohead,
KRS-One,
The Move,
World's Most,
Buzzcocks,
The Pop Group,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bill Wells,
Donald Byrd,
cv313,
Babytalk,
Brand Nubian,
The Birthday Party,
Scan 7,
Godley & Creme,
Jesper Dahlback,
Howard Jones,
the Fania All-Stars,
Underground Resistance,
Henry Cow,
Soulsonic Force,
The Associates,
Ituana,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flipper,
Cal Tjader,
Guru Guru,
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
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.