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 Russia and from Philadelphia.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Martian to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Ronan,
The Zeros,
Warsaw,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television,
In Retrospect,
Silicon Teens,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Desert Stars,
Depeche Mode,
Underground Resistance,
Aural Exciters,
Make Up,
Toni Rubio,
Sonny Sharrock,
Vladislav Delay,
Pantytec,
Kaleidoscope,
Altered Images,
Faust,
The American Breed,
The Associates,
Davy DMX,
Scion,
Neil Young,
The Beau Brummels,
Moss Icon,
The Cramps,
Oblivians,
Matthew Bourne,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Max Romeo,
New Age Steppers,
Liliput,
The Busters,
Cal Tjader,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Fela Kuti,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Khruangbin,
Schoolly D,
Lyres,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lightning Bolt,
Barry Ungar,
Niagra,
Severed Heads,
Moebius,
The Fugs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter and Kerry,
Rod Modell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mad Mike,
Howard Jones,
Alison Limerick,
The Detroit Cobras,
Archie Shepp,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.