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 East Timor and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 L. Decosne to the crunk 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Frankie Knuckles,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Deakin,
DNA,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sun City Girls,
Echospace,
Parry Music,
Godley & Creme,
Soft Machine,
Rites of Spring,
Brothers Johnson,
Harmonia,
Glenn Branca,
Stetsasonic,
Funky Four + One,
Gang of Four,
Wings,
Johnny Osbourne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun Ra,
John Lydon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Model 500,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hasil Adkins,
Spoonie Gee,
June of 44,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Tears for Fears,
Peter and Kerry,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Harpers Bizarre,
Public Enemy,
Can,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Monks,
Simply Red,
kango's stein massive,
The Young Rascals,
Panda Bear,
The Slits,
The Selecter,
Symarip,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Techniques,
Qualms,
The Invisible,
The Pretty Things,
The Shadows of Knight,
FM Einheit,
Joensuu 1685,
Hoover,
Grandmaster Flash,
Agitation Free,
Second Layer,
The Mummies,
Sarah Menescal,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.