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 Benin and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Intrusion to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Liliput,
Zero Boys,
Country Teasers,
The Martian,
Sarah Menescal,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Moby Grape,
Lyres,
Zapp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soft Machine,
China Crisis,
The Mojo Men,
the Human League,
Henry Cow,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eric Dolphy,
Intrusion,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Velvet Underground,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rosa Yemen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Monks,
Porter Ricks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eli Mardock,
Sister Nancy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Holt,
Yusef Lateef,
Aswad,
Qualms,
Anthony Braxton,
Eurythmics,
Althea and Donna,
Basic Channel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Icehouse,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Quantec,
Gang of Four,
MC5,
10cc,
Amon Düül,
Funkadelic,
Skarface,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crash Course in Science,
Michelle Simonal,
Buzzcocks,
Absolute Body Control,
Youth Brigade,
The Black Dice,
The Smiths,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.