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 Dominican Republic and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 The Moleskins to the funk 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Doors,
L. Decosne,
Altered Images,
Soft Machine,
Ice-T,
Amazonics,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Cramps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra,
Grauzone,
Make Up,
Silicon Teens,
China Crisis,
Kayak,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unrelated Segments,
The Music Machine,
Rufus Thomas,
Neu!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joe Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Simply Red,
The Victims,
Archie Shepp,
Aloha Tigers,
Inner City,
Bad Manners,
The Offenders,
X-102,
Minny Pops,
Alice Coltrane,
Susan Cadogan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Trumans Water,
Leonard Cohen,
Peter and Kerry,
Danielle Patucci,
AZ,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cal Tjader,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
UT,
Flipper,
Chris & Cosey,
The Toasters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visage,
Skriet,
Ralphi Rosario,
Morten Harket,
Connie Case,
Thee Headcoats,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Neon Judgement,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.