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 Singapore and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Stereo Dub to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Youth Brigade,
JFA,
Ponytail,
Leonard Cohen,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dorothy Ashby,
Siglo XX,
Sex Pistols,
Barbara Tucker,
Maurizio,
Main Source,
Fatback Band,
Joey Negro,
R.M.O.,
Harpers Bizarre,
The United States of America,
Ultimate Spinach,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Aaron Thompson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sound Behaviour,
L. Decosne,
DJ Style,
the Swans,
the Normal,
The Doors,
B.T. Express,
The Five Americans,
Guru Guru,
Swans,
Hot Snakes,
Patti Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Motions,
Deakin,
Cameo,
Iggy Pop,
The Music Machine,
Banda Bassotti,
Fugazi,
The Residents,
Quantec,
UT,
Harmonia,
June of 44,
Soft Machine,
Agent Orange,
The Alarm Clocks,
Aswad,
The Wake,
Joy Division,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Misunderstood,
Rotary Connection,
Lebanon Hanover,
Andrew Hill,
Duran Duran,
Eddi Front,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gichy Dan,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.