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 Bahrain and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
Warren Ellis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Newcleus,
Sixth Finger,
Vainqueur,
Mark Hollis,
Skriet,
Scientists,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Moon,
Franke,
Masters at Work,
Colin Newman,
DJ Style,
Von Mondo,
H. Thieme,
kango's stein massive,
JFA,
The Count Five,
Unwound,
Minny Pops,
Aswad,
Cybotron,
Sex Pistols,
The Remains,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hasil Adkins,
Thee Headcoats,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gabor Szabo,
Deakin,
Laurel Aitken,
Robert Hood,
Wally Richardson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Symarip,
Scion,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Last Poets,
Unrelated Segments,
The Searchers,
Banda Bassotti,
Essential Logic,
Crime,
Nico,
Ronan,
Barrington Levy,
The Monochrome Set,
Brothers Johnson,
Davy DMX,
Eric Copeland,
Funky Four + One,
Visage,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sandy B,
The New Christs,
Joe Finger,
D'Angelo,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.