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 Japan and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Excepter to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
The Offenders,
Ponytail,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jeff Mills,
Ultravox,
Model 500,
Thee Headcoats,
Masters at Work,
Matthew Halsall,
Subhumans,
Tears for Fears,
The Monks,
Pylon,
Deadbeat,
Das Ding,
Scott Walker,
Ituana,
Erykah Badu,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Youth Brigade,
Lucky Dragons,
Los Fastidios,
The Gap Band,
Ossler,
Underground Resistance,
Peter & Gordon,
The Divine Comedy,
the Slits,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Steve Hackett,
Tom Boy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tommy Roe,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crash Course in Science,
Qualms,
48th St. Collective,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Leaves,
Lalo Schifrin,
DNA,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Todd Terry,
Lakeside,
The Count Five,
Fatback Band,
DJ Sneak,
Lindisfarne,
Faust,
Soulsonic Force,
Inner City,
The Sound,
Brass Construction,
Kayak,
Sister Nancy,
Television Personalities,
The Grass Roots,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.