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 Lithuania 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hashim to the techno 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mummies,
CMW,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marc Almond,
Erasure,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Black Dice,
MC5,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Josef K,
Derrick Morgan,
Ohio Players,
Oneida,
Jeru the Damaja,
Das Ding,
Liliput,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Remains,
Ituana,
Dave Gahan,
Moss Icon,
Dark Day,
Chris Corsano,
Junior Murvin,
Los Fastidios,
Ten City,
Mary Jane Girls,
OOIOO,
Max Romeo,
Main Source,
Toni Rubio,
The Human League,
Sister Nancy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fortunes,
Harry Pussy,
Infiniti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Newcleus,
Youth Brigade,
Pere Ubu,
Cluster,
The Divine Comedy,
Moebius,
Gong,
June Days,
Funky Four + One,
Barry Ungar,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quantec,
Gang Green,
The Monochrome Set,
Essential Logic,
Au Pairs,
Joe Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.