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 Sierra Leone and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eric Dolphy to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stiv Bators,
the Normal,
The Associates,
L. Decosne,
The Buckinghams,
The Blues Magoos,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Birthday Party,
Banda Bassotti,
The Pretty Things,
Arthur Verocai,
Country Teasers,
Quantec,
Marine Girls,
10cc,
The Remains,
Marshall Jefferson,
Main Source,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Flag,
Skriet,
Camberwell Now,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Janne Schatter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
DNA,
kango's stein massive,
Sandy B,
Alton Ellis,
Sparks,
Stetsasonic,
The Selecter,
Jeff Lynne,
Youth Brigade,
Deadbeat,
Letta Mbulu,
Scientists,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pussy Galore,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Accadde A,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Magazine,
Sun Ra,
The Real Kids,
Mark Hollis,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gap Band,
One Last Wish,
The Zeros,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lalann,
Aloha Tigers,
The Names,
The Evens,
Aaron Thompson,
Vainqueur,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.