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 Moldova and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Bizarre Inc. to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Adolescents,
Harry Pussy,
The Associates,
Sparks,
Q and Not U,
The Real Kids,
The Fall,
Danielle Patucci,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Urselle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fat Boys,
Sun Ra,
Rufus Thomas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
cv313,
The Moody Blues,
LL Cool J,
Freddie Wadling,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barrington Levy,
Pole,
Albert Ayler,
In Retrospect,
The Golliwogs,
The Stooges,
DJ Style,
Joe Smooth,
Josef K,
The Misunderstood,
Eric Dolphy,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
Sällskapet,
Monks,
Mark Hollis,
The Evens,
the Bar-Kays,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Basic Channel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Skatalites,
Mad Mike,
Alphaville,
The Dave Clark Five,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kerri Chandler,
CMW,
Sixth Finger,
Eric Copeland,
Thompson Twins,
The Mojo Men,
Andrew Hill,
Glenn Branca,
Second Layer,
Bluetip,
Prince Buster,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roxy Music,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.