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 Canada and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Crooked Eye to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
the Slits,
Saccharine Trust,
Scratch Acid,
Newcleus,
The Pop Group,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Byron Stingily,
DJ Sneak,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Magazine,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Divine Comedy,
Agent Orange,
CMW,
Moss Icon,
Minnie Riperton,
Y Pants,
Radiohead,
Lakeside,
Steve Hackett,
Gong,
Isaac Hayes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joe Finger,
Los Fastidios,
Chris Corsano,
Buzzcocks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Amazonics,
Von Mondo,
LL Cool J,
Suburban Knight,
Wally Richardson,
Jawbox,
Interpol,
Essential Logic,
Half Japanese,
Lalann,
Robert Hood,
Royal Trux,
KRS-One,
Fugazi,
Morten Harket,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Blackbyrds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Velvet Underground,
Hashim,
The Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
T. Rex,
The Electric Prunes,
Flash Fearless,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Seeds,
Yaz,
Dawn Penn,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.