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 Sweden and from New York.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Byron Stingily to the disco 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Fluxion,
Rapeman,
Japan,
Jawbox,
The United States of America,
E-Dancer,
Fela Kuti,
X-101,
Khruangbin,
Flash Fearless,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Neil Young,
Joyce Sims,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Sam Rivers,
The Tremeloes,
Tim Buckley,
The Skatalites,
Soft Cell,
48th St. Collective,
The Kinks,
CMW,
Outsiders,
Darondo,
Lindisfarne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grauzone,
Cluster,
The Sound,
Bobby Womack,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Anakelly,
Quantec,
Country Teasers,
Aloha Tigers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dirtbombs,
Television Personalities,
Gang Green,
China Crisis,
Erykah Badu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Barry Ungar,
Ken Boothe,
Main Source,
Grandmaster Flash,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Tom Boy,
Stetsasonic,
The Music Machine,
Desert Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Quando Quango,
Dave Gahan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roxette,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.