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 Nepal and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the rap 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 Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Erasure,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sällskapet,
The Index,
Fad Gadget,
Joy Division,
ABBA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Junior Murvin,
The Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
Agent Orange,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Inner City,
Barbara Tucker,
Main Source,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Zapp,
Public Enemy,
New Order,
Stetsasonic,
Scott Walker,
Schoolly D,
Lyres,
Nico,
Arcadia,
June Days,
Ohio Players,
The Pretty Things,
Depeche Mode,
Nas,
Joe Smooth,
Aloha Tigers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABC,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mad Mike,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Banda Bassotti,
Unwound,
LL Cool J,
Das Ding,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gabor Szabo,
Blancmange,
Quantec,
Joey Negro,
Skarface,
The Names,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eurythmics,
Jerry's Kids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-Ray Spex,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.