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 Turkmenistan and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Pantytec to the grunge 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Nico,
Essential Logic,
Ituana,
Ten City,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Axelrod,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bronski Beat,
Lucky Dragons,
JFA,
Freddie Wadling,
AZ,
Shoche,
Sister Nancy,
Cecil Taylor,
Young Marble Giants,
Joe Finger,
Hasil Adkins,
Eric Dolphy,
Swell Maps,
The Blues Magoos,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
LL Cool J,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alice Coltrane,
The Sonics,
Icehouse,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fluxion,
Can,
The Raincoats,
The Fuzztones,
Lee Hazlewood,
Agent Orange,
Wolf Eyes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bill Wells,
Outsiders,
Clear Light,
Hot Snakes,
X-102,
Hardrive,
Livin' Joy,
Howard Jones,
Gong,
Absolute Body Control,
Nik Kershaw,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cymande,
Robert Wyatt,
John Holt,
Monolake,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Divine Comedy,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.