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 France and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin 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 Nico to the jazz 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Fugazi,
Fatback Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scrapy,
Negative Approach,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wire,
Jawbox,
Man Eating Sloth,
Clear Light,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scott Walker,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Arab on Radar,
Wolf Eyes,
The Music Machine,
Ossler,
Fela Kuti,
Bill Wells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Soft Cell,
Man Parrish,
Peter & Gordon,
Sparks,
Crooked Eye,
The Mojo Men,
Arcadia,
Judy Mowatt,
Second Layer,
Spandau Ballet,
Bronski Beat,
Panda Bear,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Gories,
Basic Channel,
The Skatalites,
Barbara Tucker,
Yazoo,
Ohio Players,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jacques Brel,
The Saints,
Outsiders,
Fear,
Zapp,
Siglo XX,
Hashim,
Lyres,
Alton Ellis,
China Crisis,
Hot Snakes,
Soulsonic Force,
Warsaw,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Todd Terry,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.