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 Estonia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Johnny Clarke to the jazz 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stetsasonic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Organ,
The Selecter,
Buzzcocks,
The Last Poets,
Gang of Four,
Deadbeat,
Ossler,
Fat Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Easy Going,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Golliwogs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Supertramp,
Danielle Patucci,
David Axelrod,
Cameo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warren Ellis,
Massinfluence,
MC5,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tres Demented,
Brothers Johnson,
Minnie Riperton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slits,
Traffic Nightmare,
Soft Machine,
David McCallum,
DNA,
The Skatalites,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Oneida,
Jandek,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nick Fraelich,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Amon Düül,
Lungfish,
David Bowie,
Mr. Review,
The Stooges,
UT,
F. McDonald,
Yazoo,
Dark Day,
Deepchord,
The Saints,
The Grass Roots,
U.S. Maple,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.