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 Mali and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar 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 Loose Ends to the rock 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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Little Man,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amon Düül II,
Alton Ellis,
LL Cool J,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soft Cell,
New Age Steppers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cluster,
The Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
Delta 5,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
Newcleus,
Das Ding,
John Foxx,
Anthony Braxton,
Vladislav Delay,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scratch Acid,
Agitation Free,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers,
In Retrospect,
Judy Mowatt,
Inner City,
Japan,
Marc Almond,
Joensuu 1685,
Stiv Bators,
Quantec,
Trumans Water,
Soft Machine,
The Pretty Things,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Janne Schatter,
The Cowsills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deepchord,
Oneida,
Pantytec,
The Selecter,
Cal Tjader,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cymande,
James White and The Blacks,
Harmonia,
Althea and Donna,
Sandy B,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.