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 Germany and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Rosa Yemen,
The Five Americans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
John Lydon,
New Order,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lindisfarne,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra,
Bad Manners,
Roger Hodgson,
Rotary Connection,
Gabor Szabo,
MDC,
Lucky Dragons,
Magazine,
Isaac Hayes,
Robert Hood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fugs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Underground Resistance,
Sound Behaviour,
Bootsy Collins,
Camberwell Now,
Cybotron,
The Fortunes,
Fugazi,
Animal Collective,
The Electric Prunes,
In Retrospect,
Saccharine Trust,
Young Marble Giants,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pylon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scion,
Sight & Sound,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Searchers,
Lou Christie,
Little Man,
Matthew Bourne,
Aswad,
Eurythmics,
Dennis Brown,
June of 44,
The United States of America,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nas,
Metal Thangz,
Amon Düül,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
The Gories,
Sexual Harrassment,
Absolute Body Control,
Joey Negro,
Joy Division,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.