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 India and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin 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 Excepter to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Boogie Down Productions,
New Age Steppers,
Nick Fraelich,
The Standells,
The Last Poets,
EPMD,
Eddi Front,
Crash Course in Science,
Derrick Morgan,
Underground Resistance,
Thee Headcoats,
Cecil Taylor,
Faust,
Niagra,
Zero Boys,
Jawbox,
Sun Ra,
Shuggie Otis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Minor Threat,
Mantronix,
Josef K,
Aural Exciters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Max Romeo,
Roxette,
Idris Muhammad,
John Cale,
The Grass Roots,
Yaz,
Aswad,
The Divine Comedy,
OOIOO,
Ornette Coleman,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bob Dylan,
Pole,
Main Source,
Q65,
Chrome,
Crispian St. Peters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Depeche Mode,
James White and The Blacks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Schoolly D,
Robert Wyatt,
Lungfish,
Soulsonic Force,
The Velvet Underground,
Smog,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grey Daturas,
Jesper Dahlback,
Connie Case,
Skriet,
The Zeros,
Johnny Clarke,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.