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 Niger and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 harpsichord 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 the Fania All-Stars to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
John Cale,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ohio Players,
Au Pairs,
The Tremeloes,
The New Christs,
H. Thieme,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-Ray Spex,
Pylon,
Circle Jerks,
The United States of America,
The Stooges,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Rites of Spring,
The Slits,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobby Sherman,
Skarface,
Throbbing Gristle,
Q and Not U,
The Electric Prunes,
Pole,
Susan Cadogan,
the Bar-Kays,
The Modern Lovers,
Schoolly D,
10cc,
Neu!,
Aaron Thompson,
The Litter,
Crash Course in Science,
Radio Birdman,
Drexciya,
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Peter & Gordon,
Brass Construction,
Howard Jones,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cramps,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sexual Harrassment,
Chris Corsano,
Kas Product,
Idris Muhammad,
Pantaleimon,
Bootsy Collins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The American Breed,
PIL,
Mo-Dettes,
Radiohead,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
Sällskapet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.