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 Equatorial Guinea and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Marshall Jefferson to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soul Sonic Force,
June Days,
Ultravox,
Babytalk,
Camouflage,
Stockholm Monsters,
Agitation Free,
The Music Machine,
Boredoms,
Deadbeat,
Los Fastidios,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Monolake,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Soft Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
The Birthday Party,
Alton Ellis,
Juan Atkins,
Yaz,
Sixth Finger,
Gang Green,
Jeff Mills,
Make Up,
Mo-Dettes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jacob Miller,
Section 25,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skarface,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Schoolly D,
Wally Richardson,
Ohio Players,
David Axelrod,
Chrome,
MC5,
Rotary Connection,
Michelle Simonal,
Tom Boy,
Chris & Cosey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Dead Boys,
UT,
Don Cherry,
Laurel Aitken,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Connie Case,
T. Rex,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
Sam Rivers,
Royal Trux,
Procol Harum,
Boz Scaggs,
Vainqueur,
Yazoo,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.