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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Amon Düül II,
Jawbox,
Pierre Henry,
Davy DMX,
DJ Sneak,
Freddie Wadling,
Barbara Tucker,
Stetsasonic,
Blake Baxter,
Warsaw,
Jacques Brel,
Wings,
Q and Not U,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Teasers,
John Lydon,
Pole,
a-ha,
Bobby Byrd,
PIL,
Monolake,
The United States of America,
Roxy Music,
Pantaleimon,
Henry Cow,
Half Japanese,
The Pop Group,
Alice Coltrane,
Desert Stars,
Y Pants,
Lou Christie,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fad Gadget,
Ponytail,
Robert Görl,
The Cowsills,
Bill Wells,
Ice-T,
Aloha Tigers,
The Gap Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jacob Miller,
Boredoms,
The Trojans,
Liliput,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Pretty Things,
The New Christs,
The Divine Comedy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Moon,
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.