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 China and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 Throbbing Gristle. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
The Durutti Column,
Black Pus,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Malaria!,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cure,
World's Most,
Fatback Band,
Pylon,
Eddi Front,
Supertramp,
Nico,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
the Sonics,
Quando Quango,
Niagra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Arab on Radar,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Groovy Waters,
The Litter,
Masters at Work,
Country Teasers,
Joyce Sims,
Ultra Naté,
Marshall Jefferson,
Max Romeo,
Danielle Patucci,
Moss Icon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra,
The Blackbyrds,
Crooked Eye,
Cymande,
Sound Behaviour,
Faust,
John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warren Ellis,
The Human League,
The Residents,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lyres,
Dennis Brown,
Michelle Simonal,
Radiopuhelimet,
Todd Terry,
Bang On A Can,
Don Cherry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
D'Angelo,
Junior Murvin,
Scan 7,
Althea and Donna,
Letta Mbulu,
Deadbeat,
Banda Bassotti,
Angry Samoans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.