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 Slovenia and from Tokyo.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scion to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Black Flag,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hoover,
The Fugs,
Camouflage,
The Mojo Men,
The Raincoats,
Amon Düül,
The Wake,
Faust,
The Pretty Things,
Bobby Womack,
Hasil Adkins,
Mandrill,
Blake Baxter,
Lower 48,
Aloha Tigers,
Pole,
Monolake,
Yazoo,
Audionom,
Unrelated Segments,
Rotary Connection,
Ronnie Foster,
Metal Thangz,
The Pop Group,
The Happenings,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yaz,
Susan Cadogan,
Section 25,
The Mummies,
Von Mondo,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gap Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Five Americans,
Minutemen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Darondo,
Television Personalities,
Derrick May,
Charles Mingus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Red Krayola,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Blackbyrds,
Barrington Levy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boz Scaggs,
Urselle,
Shuggie Otis,
Skarface,
Lalann,
Gang Starr,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.