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 South Africa and from London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar 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 Mad Mike to the dance 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Womack,
Rakim,
The Invisible,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Depeche Mode,
Bill Wells,
Gang of Four,
The Sonics,
Alison Limerick,
Matthew Halsall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The United States of America,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Piero Umiliani,
Vladislav Delay,
Danielle Patucci,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Reed,
Soul II Soul,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jandek,
Theoretical Girls,
The Gun Club,
Bobby Sherman,
Jeff Lynne,
Pere Ubu,
Massinfluence,
The Fall,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scott Walker,
Stetsasonic,
The Human League,
The Toasters,
Ornette Coleman,
The Names,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wings,
Animal Collective,
Mantronix,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Doors,
ABC,
Marmalade,
Young Marble Giants,
Lakeside,
Maleditus Sound,
Oneida,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Monolake,
The Victims,
Second Layer,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Reagan Youth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hashim,
Monks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.