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 Ethiopia and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the grime 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Eric Dolphy,
Index,
Swell Maps,
Newcleus,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lee Hazlewood,
OOIOO,
Moss Icon,
Stereo Dub,
Interpol,
the Normal,
Roxette,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Warren Ellis,
Albert Ayler,
Section 25,
Henry Cow,
Al Stewart,
Angry Samoans,
Faraquet,
Alphaville,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drexciya,
kango's stein massive,
The Star Department,
June of 44,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Knickerbockers,
Buzzcocks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hot Snakes,
China Crisis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Monolake,
Marvin Gaye,
Fear,
Sparks,
Mission of Burma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mummies,
Oneida,
Alton Ellis,
Johnny Clarke,
Saccharine Trust,
Aaron Thompson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cowsills,
The Gladiators,
Harmonia,
Lungfish,
Avey Tare,
Surgeon,
Shuggie Otis,
The Wake,
June Days,
Fat Boys,
L. Decosne,
The Real Kids,
Zero Boys,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.