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 Honduras and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Trojans,
Eddi Front,
Joe Smooth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Gun Club,
New Age Steppers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
Rotary Connection,
Brass Construction,
Slave,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Glenn Branca,
Kool Moe Dee,
Echospace,
Excepter,
World's Most,
Piero Umiliani,
Sugar Minott,
Sun City Girls,
Crispian St. Peters,
X-Ray Spex,
48th St. Collective,
The Monks,
Erasure,
Camberwell Now,
The Mummies,
Chris & Cosey,
Pole,
Zapp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Godley & Creme,
Minor Threat,
Reuben Wilson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Albert Ayler,
F. McDonald,
Ultimate Spinach,
Japan,
The Moody Blues,
the Association,
Charles Mingus,
D'Angelo,
Procol Harum,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rakim,
Funkadelic,
DJ Sneak,
Skriet,
The Vogues,
Heaven 17,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.