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 Mali and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 David Bowie 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 Intrusion to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Clarke,
Qualms,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Association,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Vogues,
A Certain Ratio,
The Smoke,
Suicide,
Sandy B,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker,
Half Japanese,
Bill Near,
Dead Boys,
Sällskapet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Idris Muhammad,
Gong,
Vladislav Delay,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The American Breed,
Ronan,
Radio Birdman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mantronix,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Sherman,
Con Funk Shun,
Tommy Roe,
Swell Maps,
Newcleus,
Swans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Toni Rubio,
Zapp,
Fluxion,
Radiohead,
ABC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kenny Larkin,
Chris Corsano,
Public Enemy,
Warsaw,
Blossom Toes,
Kayak,
Michelle Simonal,
The Young Rascals,
Jandek,
Stiv Bators,
Black Bananas,
Archie Shepp,
Bang On A Can,
Lungfish,
Livin' Joy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.