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 Laos and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Normal to the grime 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stiv Bators,
Tommy Roe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eric Dolphy,
Silicon Teens,
The Cowsills,
Skriet,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oneida,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joensuu 1685,
Main Source,
Kerri Chandler,
Lungfish,
Sandy B,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chrome,
Archie Shepp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kevin Saunderson,
Albert Ayler,
The Saints,
The Star Department,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Flamin' Groovies,
Michelle Simonal,
The United States of America,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Searchers,
Soft Cell,
The Fugs,
New Age Steppers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Black Dice,
Quantec,
Audionom,
E-Dancer,
Prince Buster,
David Bowie,
Eric Copeland,
The Associates,
Country Teasers,
The Seeds,
Pere Ubu,
Cal Tjader,
Jeru the Damaja,
H. Thieme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.