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 Tunisia and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mantronix to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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?
Eric Dolphy,
The American Breed,
Intrusion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television Personalities,
Icehouse,
CMW,
The Blues Magoos,
Cymande,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Bananas,
Jandek,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pole,
Pantaleimon,
Flipper,
MDC,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Shuggie Otis,
Tropical Tobacco,
Magma,
The J.B.'s,
Wire,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Funkadelic,
Depeche Mode,
Danielle Patucci,
The Doobie Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Unrelated Segments,
The Sound,
UT,
Lower 48,
Bill Wells,
Glenn Branca,
Black Pus,
Bronski Beat,
Television,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Amon Düül,
Peter and Kerry,
Public Enemy,
Zapp,
Scott Walker,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Can,
Second Layer,
Dawn Penn,
Boz Scaggs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Liliput,
Nick Fraelich,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Knickerbockers,
The Mojo Men,
kango's stein massive,
Vainqueur,
The Blackbyrds,
KRS-One,
This Heat,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.