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 United Kingdom and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Gang Starr to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Johnny Clarke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultravox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Martian,
Vladislav Delay,
Junior Murvin,
Donald Byrd,
The Velvet Underground,
Public Image Ltd.,
DJ Sneak,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Tremeloes,
Bill Near,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Swans,
Bluetip,
Soft Machine,
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Peter & Gordon,
Cybotron,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jacob Miller,
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
Rod Modell,
Flipper,
Shoche,
New York Dolls,
Arcadia,
Black Pus,
Nick Fraelich,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
Lower 48,
The Victims,
Flamin' Groovies,
Franke,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anthony Braxton,
The Residents,
Colin Newman,
Fugazi,
Ice-T,
The Fall,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Gap Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.