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 Libya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
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 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 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 Pussy Galore to the grime 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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rekid,
10cc,
Fluxion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Steve Hackett,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Desert Stars,
Buzzcocks,
Visage,
The Sisters of Mercy,
T.S.O.L.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Index,
The Count Five,
Hot Snakes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vladislav Delay,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cymande,
China Crisis,
Blake Baxter,
The Busters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Panda Bear,
Radio Birdman,
Scan 7,
Second Layer,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pantaleimon,
The Raincoats,
Pierre Henry,
Marvin Gaye,
Lou Christie,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gong,
Khruangbin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Index,
Das Ding,
June Days,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Organ,
Yazoo,
KRS-One,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funkadelic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bootsy Collins,
Underground Resistance,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pulsallama,
Cybotron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Slackers,
Talk Talk,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.