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 Finland and from Halifax.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Kerri Chandler,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Hasil Adkins,
The New Christs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Carl Craig,
David Bowie,
The Beau Brummels,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Birthday Party,
Connie Case,
Gabor Szabo,
Suburban Knight,
Heaven 17,
Marine Girls,
Sex Pistols,
Saccharine Trust,
Harry Pussy,
Fear,
The Music Machine,
Scion,
Hot Snakes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tears for Fears,
the Bar-Kays,
Sun City Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gregory Isaacs,
Von Mondo,
the Germs,
Roxy Music,
Intrusion,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Shoche,
Crash Course in Science,
Silicon Teens,
Metal Thangz,
Lungfish,
Brass Construction,
The Remains,
Maurizio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Hardrive,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bill Wells,
Prince Buster,
Second Layer,
Oblivians,
T.S.O.L.,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rhythm & Sound,
These Immortal Souls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick May,
Aural Exciters,
The Cure,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gastr Del Sol,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.