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 Oman and from London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Smiths to the rock 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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
The Skatalites,
The Young Rascals,
Kayak,
Nation of Ulysses,
China Crisis,
Aswad,
Von Mondo,
Negative Approach,
Bootsy Collins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Subhumans,
Schoolly D,
Anakelly,
the Bar-Kays,
Crime,
Jerry Gold Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
The Modern Lovers,
LL Cool J,
Johnny Clarke,
Stereo Dub,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lightning Bolt,
Essential Logic,
Dawn Penn,
Maleditus Sound,
Con Funk Shun,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Godley & Creme,
Dennis Brown,
PIL,
Ponytail,
Grauzone,
F. McDonald,
Second Layer,
Eli Mardock,
Heaven 17,
Metal Thangz,
The Busters,
The Flesh Eaters,
a-ha,
Tears for Fears,
Technova,
The Pretty Things,
Ken Boothe,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Organ,
Pet Shop Boys,
Oblivians,
The Buckinghams,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minutemen,
Laurel Aitken,
Wings,
Erasure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scrapy,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.