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 Finland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Al Stewart 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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Grass Roots,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kenny Larkin,
The Techniques,
Swell Maps,
Roger Hodgson,
Maurizio,
Das Ding,
Funky Four + One,
Charles Mingus,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joey Negro,
Los Fastidios,
Zero Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
Kaleidoscope,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Buckinghams,
The Cure,
Joe Finger,
Au Pairs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Japan,
Flash Fearless,
Reuben Wilson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Motorama,
Faraquet,
Alton Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lucky Dragons,
D'Angelo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rapeman,
Lungfish,
The Birthday Party,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aloha Tigers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Tremeloes,
Lindisfarne,
Junior Murvin,
Anakelly,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gladiators,
Moss Icon,
Groovy Waters,
Grauzone,
Sister Nancy,
Fela Kuti,
June Days,
The Happenings,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Connie Case,
Gang of Four,
kango's stein massive,
Half Japanese,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.