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 Djibouti and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 The Skatalites to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
New Age Steppers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Young Marble Giants,
The Toasters,
Todd Rundgren,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Steve Hackett,
The Red Krayola,
LL Cool J,
Magazine,
Marmalade,
Japan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ultravox,
Rotary Connection,
D'Angelo,
Franke,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Monks,
Robert Görl,
Cluster,
Khruangbin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ralphi Rosario,
Oneida,
Sonic Youth,
Liliput,
Deepchord,
Technova,
Arab on Radar,
Wings,
Soul II Soul,
Erykah Badu,
The Gap Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hardrive,
Johnny Osbourne,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lightning Bolt,
Shuggie Otis,
Hot Snakes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Toni Rubio,
Visage,
Lebanon Hanover,
Isaac Hayes,
Dark Day,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
OOIOO,
The Litter,
Glenn Branca,
Yusef Lateef,
Adolescents,
Big Daddy Kane,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Vogues,
Outsiders,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.