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 Benin and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Stiv Bators to the punk 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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
John Cale,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Slave,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
FM Einheit,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang of Four,
Easy Going,
The Gap Band,
DJ Style,
Boredoms,
Brothers Johnson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Saccharine Trust,
Bobby Womack,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ponytail,
Dave Gahan,
Quantec,
Radiohead,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Simply Red,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Blake Baxter,
Youth Brigade,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alton Ellis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cluster,
K-Klass,
Man Parrish,
Peter and Kerry,
the Soft Cell,
Porter Ricks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
June of 44,
The Golliwogs,
Moss Icon,
ABBA,
Nas,
Soulsonic Force,
Basic Channel,
Motorama,
Anakelly,
Lindisfarne,
Sonic Youth,
Warsaw,
Faraquet,
Moebius,
Chrome,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soft Cell,
Scratch Acid,
Animal Collective,
Scan 7,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Birthday Party,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.