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 Pakistan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum 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 Deepchord to the disco 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Warren Ellis,
The Sonics,
Drexciya,
The Gap Band,
JFA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Green,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Funkadelic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deepchord,
Neil Young,
Sixth Finger,
The Count Five,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ossler,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Robert Hood,
The Pretty Things,
Wire,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sound,
Crooked Eye,
Suburban Knight,
Q and Not U,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dark Day,
Shoche,
New Age Steppers,
F. McDonald,
Audionom,
James White and The Blacks,
Marmalade,
Skarface,
Eddi Front,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alison Limerick,
Graham Central Station,
Derrick May,
CMW,
Gabor Szabo,
Prince Buster,
Niagra,
Oblivians,
The Gories,
Sun Ra,
The Mojo Men,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Slick Rick,
Joensuu 1685,
Pantaleimon,
Saccharine Trust,
Magma,
Ultra Naté,
Marine Girls,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.