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 South Africa and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Freddie Wadling to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Fluxion,
the Human League,
X-101,
Todd Terry,
Kerri Chandler,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobby Sherman,
La Düsseldorf,
Piero Umiliani,
Yaz,
Adolescents,
Terrestrial Tones,
Warsaw,
Moss Icon,
Angry Samoans,
The Tremeloes,
Babytalk,
Young Marble Giants,
It's A Beautiful Day,
E-Dancer,
Monolake,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Music Machine,
Lalann,
Matthew Halsall,
Scott Walker,
Marine Girls,
The Zeros,
Erykah Badu,
Chris Corsano,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
June Days,
Television Personalities,
Mission of Burma,
Spoonie Gee,
Freddie Wadling,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Monks,
Essential Logic,
Deepchord,
Ossler,
Bobby Byrd,
Zapp,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Slackers,
The Seeds,
Cameo,
Terry Callier,
The Offenders,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Toasters,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
JFA,
Eric Dolphy,
Roger Hodgson,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.