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 Yemen and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 Quadrant to the punk 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
10cc,
Bush Tetras,
Michelle Simonal,
Qualms,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxette,
The Mummies,
The Detroit Cobras,
Theoretical Girls,
X-101,
Ituana,
Skriet,
Cal Tjader,
Tim Buckley,
Adolescents,
Talk Talk,
The Wake,
Organ,
Albert Ayler,
A Certain Ratio,
Arthur Verocai,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Black Bananas,
Rapeman,
Suburban Knight,
Tubeway Army,
Peter & Gordon,
Soul II Soul,
The Doors,
New York Dolls,
Bad Manners,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Searchers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cramps,
Judy Mowatt,
Aloha Tigers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Derrick May,
Bang On A Can,
Eli Mardock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pierre Henry,
Yusef Lateef,
Interpol,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Move,
Unrelated Segments,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lower 48,
Peter and Kerry,
Tres Demented,
Soft Cell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Robert Wyatt,
The Pretty Things,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.