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 Luxembourg and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Lou Reed 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Barclay James Harvest,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brass Construction,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
La Düsseldorf,
The Angels of Light,
Harmonia,
Vladislav Delay,
FM Einheit,
The Gun Club,
Moss Icon,
Von Mondo,
Pole,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Cramps,
Marvin Gaye,
Silicon Teens,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
LL Cool J,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
New Age Steppers,
Ludus,
Charles Mingus,
Drexciya,
Blancmange,
Youth Brigade,
10cc,
One Last Wish,
Althea and Donna,
Niagra,
The Leaves,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
B.T. Express,
Andrew Hill,
Joe Finger,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deepchord,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cymande,
The Human League,
The Smoke,
Rufus Thomas,
David Bowie,
The J.B.'s,
Suicide,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Tremeloes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Magazine,
Saccharine Trust,
H. Thieme,
Hot Snakes,
Black Moon,
The Blackbyrds,
The Trojans,
New Order,
Wasted Youth,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alice Coltrane,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.