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 Samoa and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Donald Byrd to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sex Pistols 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?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dual Sessions,
Danielle Patucci,
Tomorrow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Slick Rick,
Pantaleimon,
Lucky Dragons,
The Toasters,
Marvin Gaye,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Angry Samoans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yazoo,
Sandy B,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Prince Buster,
Pantytec,
Lindisfarne,
Malaria!,
Mary Jane Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Hill,
The Grass Roots,
Aaron Thompson,
Procol Harum,
Babytalk,
The Motions,
The Modern Lovers,
Johnny Clarke,
Fluxion,
ABC,
Marine Girls,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Slackers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crime,
Au Pairs,
Harmonia,
Stereo Dub,
Eric Dolphy,
Saccharine Trust,
Vainqueur,
The Detroit Cobras,
Beasts of Bourbon,
48th St. Collective,
Bang On A Can,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joy Division,
Boz Scaggs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Black Dice,
kango's stein massive,
Pole,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.