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 Bhutan and from Hong Kong.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 kango's stein massive to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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 Germs,
Colin Newman,
Au Pairs,
Sonic Youth,
Lakeside,
Fela Kuti,
Scan 7,
Godley & Creme,
Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Index,
Ornette Coleman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Subhumans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
UT,
Judy Mowatt,
Lower 48,
Jeff Lynne,
The Stooges,
PIL,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minny Pops,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
The Mojo Men,
Delon & Dalcan,
Howard Jones,
Black Sheep,
Marine Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Wally Richardson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Icehouse,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
F. McDonald,
Minutemen,
The Blues Magoos,
KRS-One,
Quadrant,
Von Mondo,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Association,
Rod Modell,
Kas Product,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Detroit Cobras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joey Negro,
Ossler,
Mission of Burma,
Ultravox,
The Music Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Chris & Cosey,
Eddi Front,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.