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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes 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 Eric B and Rakim to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Intrusion,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sun Ra,
CMW,
Soft Machine,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Sheep,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mojo Men,
Grey Daturas,
Masters at Work,
Bill Near,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pharoah Sanders,
AZ,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Buzzcocks,
Dual Sessions,
Amon Düül II,
The Golliwogs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Names,
Gong,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Skaos,
Icehouse,
Excepter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Main Source,
Symarip,
The Real Kids,
The Barracudas,
New Order,
Byron Stingily,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Patti Smith,
Ohio Players,
The Zeros,
The Slackers,
Derrick Morgan,
Ronnie Foster,
Rosa Yemen,
the Sonics,
Robert Hood,
Sandy B,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
R.M.O.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nation of Ulysses,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Tremeloes,
Bobby Womack,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hot Snakes,
Cymande,
Sonic Youth,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.