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 Thailand and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
The Fall,
Negative Approach,
Amon Düül II,
Roxy Music,
Gil Scott Heron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blues Magoos,
Q and Not U,
Basic Channel,
Aswad,
Eve St. Jones,
Aural Exciters,
The Golliwogs,
Bobby Womack,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick May,
48th St. Collective,
Dawn Penn,
Lakeside,
The Birthday Party,
Pantaleimon,
Connie Case,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James White and The Blacks,
F. McDonald,
Nils Olav,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Animal Collective,
The Young Rascals,
Sixth Finger,
Drive Like Jehu,
K-Klass,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lou Christie,
David Axelrod,
Minnie Riperton,
Sun City Girls,
Wire,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fear,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dead Boys,
Jacques Brel,
Fatback Band,
Junior Murvin,
Sister Nancy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
D'Angelo,
Michelle Simonal,
Tubeway Army,
Robert Görl,
Marcia Griffiths,
Severed Heads,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
One Last Wish,
Amon Düül,
Darondo,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.