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 Sweden and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Boredoms 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Soul II Soul,
Mantronix,
Matthew Halsall,
The Remains,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
The Doors,
Ronnie Foster,
Joey Negro,
Clear Light,
The Gladiators,
Black Sheep,
Marmalade,
Silicon Teens,
EPMD,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
The Techniques,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Dave Clark Five,
MDC,
Ken Boothe,
the Slits,
Blossom Toes,
The Pop Group,
Black Flag,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Mills,
Laurel Aitken,
JFA,
Arthur Verocai,
John Lydon,
Skaos,
Erasure,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crime,
The Dirtbombs,
Wally Richardson,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Copeland,
Masters at Work,
Echospace,
Unwound,
DJ Style,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pierre Henry,
Graham Central Station,
Mo-Dettes,
Ultra Naté,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Thompson Twins,
The Birthday Party,
The Electric Prunes,
E-Dancer,
The Grass Roots,
Sun City Girls,
Half Japanese,
10cc,
Can,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.