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 Denmark and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
China Crisis,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Angels of Light,
Sam Rivers,
Agent Orange,
The Divine Comedy,
Scrapy,
The Star Department,
Pantytec,
Nik Kershaw,
John Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Ken Boothe,
Pole,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sandy B,
Anthony Braxton,
Banda Bassotti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Hood,
Jawbox,
Kerri Chandler,
Kaleidoscope,
Clear Light,
The Smiths,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Don Cherry,
New Age Steppers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Quadrant,
Kenny Larkin,
Index,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pagans,
The Remains,
Ronan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gabor Szabo,
Sex Pistols,
The Kinks,
E-Dancer,
Susan Cadogan,
Carl Craig,
Andrew Hill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
Guru Guru,
EPMD,
Suicide,
Dead Boys,
Drexciya,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Little Man,
Black Pus,
Audionom,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.