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 Tunisia and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 snare 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 Sight & Sound 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
The Seeds,
Quantec,
Talk Talk,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
F. McDonald,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Easy Going,
The Alarm Clocks,
Model 500,
Dawn Penn,
Robert Görl,
Bronski Beat,
Idris Muhammad,
Ossler,
The Human League,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Basic Channel,
Ronnie Foster,
Laurel Aitken,
CMW,
Marc Almond,
R.M.O.,
Negative Approach,
Goldenarms,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mojo Men,
John Lydon,
LL Cool J,
PIL,
Quadrant,
The Wake,
The Associates,
In Retrospect,
Lyres,
Archie Shepp,
Agitation Free,
The Trojans,
Isaac Hayes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nick Fraelich,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
the Slits,
Au Pairs,
Cheater Slicks,
Yusef Lateef,
Fat Boys,
Funkadelic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Patti Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
B.T. Express,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Slackers,
Sam Rivers,
Camouflage,
Skriet,
June Days,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.