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 Lebanon and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Matthew Bourne to the jazz 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Young Marble Giants,
Underground Resistance,
Fela Kuti,
Warren Ellis,
Television Personalities,
The Neon Judgement,
FM Einheit,
Janne Schatter,
Rites of Spring,
The Sound,
Zero Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
Aswad,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fire Engines,
Hashim,
Groovy Waters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pere Ubu,
The Slits,
Porter Ricks,
Von Mondo,
The Moody Blues,
LL Cool J,
The Dead C,
The Tremeloes,
Reuben Wilson,
Metal Thangz,
Soft Machine,
Reagan Youth,
Pagans,
The Last Poets,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
D'Angelo,
Aural Exciters,
Robert Görl,
Qualms,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Black Dice,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
Derrick May,
The Smoke,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronnie Foster,
The Kinks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun Ra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Whodini,
Soul II Soul,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Moss Icon,
X-Ray Spex,
Marvin Gaye,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kas Product,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.