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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Technova to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Adolescents,
Arcadia,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zapp,
Wolf Eyes,
Fear,
Bad Manners,
Yusef Lateef,
Monolake,
Animal Collective,
Fatback Band,
Deadbeat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maurizio,
Nils Olav,
The Standells,
Rotary Connection,
Josef K,
Sex Pistols,
The J.B.'s,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Skatalites,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Suicide,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Arthur Verocai,
The Kinks,
The Invisible,
Janne Schatter,
Basic Channel,
Warren Ellis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Last Poets,
Harpers Bizarre,
cv313,
The Move,
H. Thieme,
Sonic Youth,
Los Fastidios,
The Seeds,
Scan 7,
The Black Dice,
Lakeside,
Au Pairs,
Wings,
Q65,
the Sonics,
The Neon Judgement,
Sällskapet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Absolute Body Control,
Gong,
D'Angelo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glambeats Corp.,
Man Parrish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pole,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.