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 Nigeria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cure to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
The Buckinghams,
Connie Case,
Moby Grape,
The Moody Blues,
Swans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Slits,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mr. Review,
Organ,
Masters at Work,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Susan Cadogan,
Easy Going,
Y Pants,
Blancmange,
The Smoke,
Second Layer,
Freddie Wadling,
The Evens,
The Music Machine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Archie Shepp,
Dead Boys,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aural Exciters,
Infiniti,
Grey Daturas,
Quadrant,
Popol Vuh,
Chris & Cosey,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soulsonic Force,
Nick Fraelich,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Harpers Bizarre,
David McCallum,
Juan Atkins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Grass Roots,
Minor Threat,
Guru Guru,
Heaven 17,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wire,
Maurizio,
The Index,
The Walker Brothers,
The Seeds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hasil Adkins,
L. Decosne,
Supertramp,
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.