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 Sri Lanka and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Moleskins 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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Kayak,
Ituana,
Pantaleimon,
The Slits,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
June Days,
Scion,
Ten City,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Shoche,
The Fortunes,
Soul II Soul,
These Immortal Souls,
Chris & Cosey,
Joey Negro,
Flipper,
Barrington Levy,
The Saints,
Suicide,
Bobby Sherman,
Mad Mike,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Subhumans,
This Heat,
Slave,
The Real Kids,
AZ,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lungfish,
Dorothy Ashby,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cure,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Lou Reed,
The Trojans,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
kango's stein massive,
The Names,
OOIOO,
The Skatalites,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delta 5,
Leonard Cohen,
Liliput,
Hoover,
Joensuu 1685,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare,
Peter and Kerry,
Rekid,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Graham Central Station,
Flash Fearless,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.