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 Mozambique and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Motorama to the punk 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Ponytail,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiohead,
Lower 48,
Agitation Free,
Robert Wyatt,
Nirvana,
Supertramp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Blake Baxter,
Tres Demented,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dirtbombs,
In Retrospect,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Mummies,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Beau Brummels,
Suicide,
Piero Umiliani,
X-101,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nas,
Can,
Harpers Bizarre,
Arcadia,
Dead Boys,
FM Einheit,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Toni Rubio,
Pere Ubu,
U.S. Maple,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Pus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sound Behaviour,
Quantec,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Goldenarms,
Yaz,
Smog,
Danielle Patucci,
The Evens,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Radio Birdman,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
H. Thieme,
Sun Ra,
Youth Brigade,
Cal Tjader,
Gichy Dan,
The Cramps,
Terry Callier,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.