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 Lesotho and from Copenhagen.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Parry Music to the grime 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Wings,
Trumans Water,
The Victims,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young,
Average White Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Drexciya,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Human League,
Jawbox,
Au Pairs,
The Seeds,
Eric Copeland,
Animal Collective,
the Association,
Unrelated Segments,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Dirtbombs,
Scientists,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scrapy,
Saccharine Trust,
Idris Muhammad,
Cameo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
Ronan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Blackbyrds,
Crime,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Chris Corsano,
The Tremeloes,
Q and Not U,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ronnie Foster,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moss Icon,
The Birthday Party,
the Human League,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Sonics,
The Techniques,
Prince Buster,
Ralphi Rosario,
Radio Birdman,
Junior Murvin,
Marc Almond,
CMW,
Grauzone,
Marine Girls,
The Zeros,
10cc,
Oneida,
Kurtis Blow,
Make Up,
Country Teasers,
The Durutti Column,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.