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 Sri Lanka and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Gories,
Terry Callier,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jesper Dahlback,
Agent Orange,
Lalann,
Davy DMX,
Throbbing Gristle,
Arcadia,
Massinfluence,
Cluster,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fire Engines,
Parry Music,
the Germs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joe Finger,
Roy Ayers,
the Soft Cell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aswad,
The Golliwogs,
David Bowie,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eddi Front,
Crime,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Sonics,
Moss Icon,
Bizarre Inc.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Brass Construction,
Mandrill,
The Skatalites,
Tubeway Army,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tomorrow,
Jandek,
Hoover,
Althea and Donna,
Barbara Tucker,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
ABC,
Suicide,
Big Daddy Kane,
Main Source,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Monks,
Alice Coltrane,
In Retrospect,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kenny Larkin,
Freddie Wadling,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.