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 Kuwait and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Massinfluence to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Smiths,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eden Ahbez,
Aswad,
the Normal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Sherman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lalann,
Trumans Water,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lightning Bolt,
The Happenings,
the Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Lou Christie,
Soulsonic Force,
Minutemen,
Radiohead,
The Knickerbockers,
F. McDonald,
New Age Steppers,
U.S. Maple,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Martian,
The Fall,
The Wake,
Gong,
Sugar Minott,
Masters at Work,
Archie Shepp,
Kaleidoscope,
Jeff Lynne,
Pagans,
Sound Behaviour,
Michelle Simonal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Barry Ungar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Funky Four + One,
Glenn Branca,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Warren Ellis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Index,
Cluster,
Chris Corsano,
Mo-Dettes,
EPMD,
Von Mondo,
Rakim,
Bad Manners,
Eli Mardock,
The Kinks,
Wings,
Alice Coltrane,
Little Man,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.