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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joyce Sims to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Black Flag,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rites of Spring,
Johnny Clarke,
Erasure,
Urselle,
The Mojo Men,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Graham Central Station,
Deakin,
Sun Ra,
Sam Rivers,
Sarah Menescal,
Avey Tare,
Chris & Cosey,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Bar-Kays,
The Happenings,
Barbara Tucker,
Fort Wilson Riot,
JFA,
The United States of America,
The Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joyce Sims,
Connie Case,
Alison Limerick,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rufus Thomas,
Davy DMX,
Sight & Sound,
Scan 7,
The Trojans,
The Gap Band,
Joey Negro,
Gang Green,
Judy Mowatt,
Spandau Ballet,
Young Marble Giants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Suicide,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ken Boothe,
The Seeds,
The Names,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Theoretical Girls,
Motorama,
Harpers Bizarre,
Faraquet,
David Axelrod,
X-102,
Electric Prunes,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.