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 Sudan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the grime 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
David Bowie,
Livin' Joy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Black Dice,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Cale,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
Chrome,
Wolf Eyes,
the Association,
Skriet,
Heaven 17,
James White and The Blacks,
Eve St. Jones,
Babytalk,
Cal Tjader,
Intrusion,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cybotron,
X-101,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Radiopuhelimet,
Animal Collective,
Television Personalities,
The Dead C,
K-Klass,
The Dirtbombs,
The Electric Prunes,
Funky Four + One,
Dorothy Ashby,
David Axelrod,
Bobby Womack,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed,
Basic Channel,
Loose Ends,
Tom Boy,
The Martian,
Audionom,
Minor Threat,
Average White Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sugar Minott,
Moby Grape,
Clear Light,
Pylon,
Derrick May,
Lalo Schifrin,
Susan Cadogan,
Icehouse,
Smog,
Masters at Work,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.