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 Bolivia and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Michael McDonald 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 Technova to the techno 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Theoretical Girls,
Infiniti,
Qualms,
Cal Tjader,
Eddi Front,
Marine Girls,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Drexciya,
the Slits,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jawbox,
Sonic Youth,
One Last Wish,
The Raincoats,
Crispy Ambulance,
David Axelrod,
Clear Light,
Country Teasers,
The Happenings,
John Foxx,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Barry Ungar,
Hardrive,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Gories,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q and Not U,
Grauzone,
Unwound,
Camberwell Now,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fall,
Young Marble Giants,
Q65,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zapp,
Flipper,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scientists,
Hashim,
Magma,
The Sisters of Mercy,
ABC,
New Age Steppers,
The Motions,
EPMD,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Y Pants,
X-Ray Spex,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Heaven 17,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moebius,
Au Pairs,
The Dirtbombs,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker,
Trumans Water,
Public Image Ltd.,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.