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 Mauritius and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Josef K to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Letta Mbulu,
Jawbox,
Stiv Bators,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cecil Taylor,
Radio Birdman,
The Dirtbombs,
Accadde A,
Juan Atkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Average White Band,
Buzzcocks,
Todd Rundgren,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Half Japanese,
Roy Ayers,
Fear,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Doors,
Soft Cell,
Q and Not U,
Alton Ellis,
Yaz,
Oneida,
Blake Baxter,
Severed Heads,
The Sound,
Wire,
Sex Pistols,
The Star Department,
Bad Manners,
Althea and Donna,
Kurtis Blow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Section 25,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dual Sessions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joyce Sims,
Suicide,
The Moleskins,
PIL,
Beasts of Bourbon,
These Immortal Souls,
Blancmange,
Minutemen,
Index,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Görl,
The Misunderstood,
Barbara Tucker,
8 Eyed Spy,
Los Fastidios,
Gil Scott Heron,
Main Source,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.