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 Liberia and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Human League,
Johnny Osbourne,
David McCallum,
Masters at Work,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Young Rascals,
Janne Schatter,
Peter and Kerry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lou Reed,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tears for Fears,
Dead Boys,
John Cale,
Pharoah Sanders,
Barrington Levy,
A Certain Ratio,
Los Fastidios,
Babytalk,
Cal Tjader,
Index,
Guru Guru,
Isaac Hayes,
Mo-Dettes,
The Pretty Things,
Jandek,
Agent Orange,
Derrick Morgan,
Skaos,
Schoolly D,
New Age Steppers,
Connie Case,
Chris Corsano,
Arab on Radar,
Lalann,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
Stereo Dub,
Letta Mbulu,
The Wake,
The Selecter,
The Raincoats,
These Immortal Souls,
Icehouse,
Anthony Braxton,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Associates,
Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
Lakeside,
Oneida,
Half Japanese,
The Dave Clark Five,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Martian,
Fad Gadget,
Bootsy Collins,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.