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 Liberia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Niagra to the rock 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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Sun Ra,
The Move,
Eric Dolphy,
Inner City,
Dual Sessions,
Davy DMX,
Faust,
Carl Craig,
China Crisis,
Shuggie Otis,
Rotary Connection,
Scientists,
Amazonics,
Wally Richardson,
The Black Dice,
Erykah Badu,
The Seeds,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Patti Smith,
Derrick May,
Marine Girls,
The Leaves,
Bluetip,
Wire,
June Days,
Zapp,
The Motions,
The Offenders,
H. Thieme,
Radiohead,
K-Klass,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric Copeland,
Bad Manners,
Gabor Szabo,
The Mummies,
Hoover,
Sällskapet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ken Boothe,
Quando Quango,
Soft Machine,
Lucky Dragons,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Monks,
Camouflage,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Skarface,
Althea and Donna,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun City Girls,
Depeche Mode,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Barracudas,
John Foxx,
Funkadelic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
cv313,
Bobby Womack,
Agent Orange,
Black Sheep,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.