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 Japan and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Eden Ahbez to the grime 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Babytalk,
The Evens,
The Cowsills,
Unrelated Segments,
The Count Five,
the Association,
Dark Day,
Youth Brigade,
CMW,
Accadde A,
Symarip,
The Star Department,
Piero Umiliani,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare,
Royal Trux,
Aswad,
Junior Murvin,
Morten Harket,
The Gladiators,
Agitation Free,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bauhaus,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Donny Hathaway,
Whodini,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nico,
The Toasters,
The Seeds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Stiv Bators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Popol Vuh,
Thee Headcoats,
The Modern Lovers,
Henry Cow,
Gerry Rafferty,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terrestrial Tones,
Angry Samoans,
Sex Pistols,
Charles Mingus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Spoonie Gee,
48th St. Collective,
Fela Kuti,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Zero Boys,
Gang of Four,
Half Japanese,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.