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 Seychelles and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Excepter to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scrapy 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 crunk 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Lalo Schifrin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scan 7,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Howard Jones,
Sonny Sharrock,
Agent Orange,
Nick Fraelich,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Residents,
X-102,
Surgeon,
Skriet,
The American Breed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Standells,
Das Ding,
Nas,
One Last Wish,
Marc Almond,
Parry Music,
Iggy Pop,
Ituana,
Traffic Nightmare,
Newcleus,
A Certain Ratio,
the Sonics,
B.T. Express,
Siglo XX,
The Fortunes,
The Real Kids,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gories,
Drexciya,
Barclay James Harvest,
Average White Band,
Eve St. Jones,
The Smiths,
Brass Construction,
Bauhaus,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hardrive,
Animal Collective,
Hoover,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alphaville,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Hood,
10cc,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lindisfarne,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dawn Penn,
Intrusion,
Soft Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang of Four,
Ronnie Foster,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.