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 Belgium and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Half Japanese to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Joensuu 1685,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
CMW,
Sister Nancy,
Eden Ahbez,
Nirvana,
K-Klass,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Sonics,
Eric Copeland,
Royal Trux,
The Blackbyrds,
Bizarre Inc.,
June Days,
Brand Nubian,
Urselle,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crooked Eye,
The Selecter,
Scratch Acid,
Scan 7,
The J.B.'s,
Procol Harum,
Harmonia,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Essential Logic,
Lyres,
Alice Coltrane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tim Buckley,
The Wake,
Nick Fraelich,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Residents,
Nik Kershaw,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roxette,
Kurtis Blow,
The Index,
John Cale,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camouflage,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Glenn Branca,
Grauzone,
Boredoms,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hashim,
Marcia Griffiths,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.