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 Andorra and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro 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 Amon Düül to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mummies,
Ken Boothe,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Khruangbin,
Jandek,
Marc Almond,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thompson Twins,
David McCallum,
Make Up,
UT,
The Cowsills,
Sixth Finger,
Moby Grape,
The Real Kids,
Gang Starr,
Matthew Bourne,
Alison Limerick,
These Immortal Souls,
Roger Hodgson,
Cybotron,
Skaos,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nirvana,
Hashim,
Jacques Brel,
Whodini,
Bronski Beat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter & Gordon,
Charles Mingus,
Max Romeo,
The Stooges,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pet Shop Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Skriet,
Shuggie Otis,
Donald Byrd,
cv313,
Excepter,
Cecil Taylor,
Sugar Minott,
Ice-T,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scott Walker,
The Red Krayola,
Hot Snakes,
Swell Maps,
Rapeman,
The Moody Blues,
The Remains,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.