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 Hungary and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 MDC to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Fania All-Stars,
Can,
Fat Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Modern Lovers,
AZ,
John Cale,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ten City,
Loose Ends,
The Searchers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Smog,
Drexciya,
Anakelly,
Pet Shop Boys,
Quantec,
the Swans,
Wire,
Harpers Bizarre,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Altered Images,
Black Moon,
Trumans Water,
Little Man,
China Crisis,
KRS-One,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eli Mardock,
Yaz,
Blancmange,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Audionom,
World's Most,
The Blues Magoos,
Sight & Sound,
the Slits,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Saints,
Yusef Lateef,
Fatback Band,
Harry Pussy,
Inner City,
Jeff Lynne,
Los Fastidios,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
David McCallum,
Soul II Soul,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Supertramp,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Black Dice,
The Music Machine,
Scrapy,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.