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 Italy and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Circle Jerks to the punk 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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Todd Terry,
Marvin Gaye,
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
Wally Richardson,
The Golliwogs,
Reagan Youth,
Kayak,
Curtis Mayfield,
Inner City,
MC5,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Half Japanese,
Scion,
Main Source,
The Wake,
Sex Pistols,
The Gun Club,
the Normal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nirvana,
Iggy Pop,
The Misunderstood,
Country Teasers,
The Associates,
Derrick Morgan,
Hoover,
The J.B.'s,
Black Flag,
Mark Hollis,
Echospace,
Arthur Verocai,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eric Copeland,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Michelle Simonal,
Albert Ayler,
Surgeon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cecil Taylor,
Drive Like Jehu,
DJ Sneak,
Zapp,
Camouflage,
Animal Collective,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T. Rex,
The Fuzztones,
Brick,
Brass Construction,
June Days,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick May,
the Human League,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.