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 Togo and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mars to the funk 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
The Divine Comedy,
Goldenarms,
Derrick May,
Gastr Del Sol,
Underground Resistance,
Soft Machine,
Newcleus,
B.T. Express,
Ossler,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Model 500,
Lyres,
cv313,
The Smiths,
Simply Red,
Skaos,
Barry Ungar,
Judy Mowatt,
Shuggie Otis,
Sällskapet,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Isaac Hayes,
Stetsasonic,
MC5,
DJ Style,
Letta Mbulu,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dead Boys,
The Fortunes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Henry Cow,
Y Pants,
The Knickerbockers,
Reuben Wilson,
ABC,
X-101,
Carl Craig,
Tres Demented,
8 Eyed Spy,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Slave,
The Last Poets,
Blancmange,
Metal Thangz,
The New Christs,
Tubeway Army,
Rod Modell,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Babytalk,
Agent Orange,
Heaven 17,
John Coltrane,
Todd Terry,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Misunderstood,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.