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 Iraq and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Michelle Simonal to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Howard Jones,
Idris Muhammad,
Blossom Toes,
Con Funk Shun,
Average White Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Roxette,
Simply Red,
T.S.O.L.,
Junior Murvin,
La Düsseldorf,
Hot Snakes,
The Smoke,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jeff Mills,
Public Image Ltd.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nation of Ulysses,
Accadde A,
Japan,
Fatback Band,
The Vogues,
Essential Logic,
The Sonics,
MDC,
Kas Product,
Nico,
B.T. Express,
Scott Walker,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Arcadia,
Jerry's Kids,
Bill Wells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rites of Spring,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cecil Taylor,
Matthew Bourne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Underground Resistance,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Bananas,
Outsiders,
Ultravox,
Peter and Kerry,
Nik Kershaw,
The Moleskins,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.