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 Libya and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
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 rhodes 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the disco 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alton Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Barrington Levy,
Eric B and Rakim,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sparks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
David Bowie,
Juan Atkins,
Brothers Johnson,
Kaleidoscope,
Eden Ahbez,
Ohio Players,
Avey Tare,
The Residents,
Black Bananas,
Delta 5,
Wings,
Harry Pussy,
John Lydon,
Mark Hollis,
Lalann,
The Motions,
Livin' Joy,
Siglo XX,
Judy Mowatt,
Ornette Coleman,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Soft Cell,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fugs,
Arthur Verocai,
Maurizio,
Deadbeat,
Public Enemy,
Joey Negro,
Tears for Fears,
Frankie Knuckles,
Davy DMX,
Banda Bassotti,
Y Pants,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ronan,
Alison Limerick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Moody Blues,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
ABC,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Von Mondo,
Amazonics,
Pere Ubu,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Slits,
Visage,
Tubeway Army,
LL Cool J,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.