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 Panama and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe 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 Colin Newman to the grime 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Unwound,
Kayak,
The Smoke,
Janne Schatter,
Pere Ubu,
Section 25,
Radiohead,
Albert Ayler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Siglo XX,
a-ha,
Gerry Rafferty,
Magma,
Junior Murvin,
Interpol,
Tommy Roe,
Circle Jerks,
Saccharine Trust,
The Standells,
Chris & Cosey,
Matthew Halsall,
Khruangbin,
Wings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
FM Einheit,
Magazine,
Mark Hollis,
The Slackers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pharoah Sanders,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soul II Soul,
Agitation Free,
Peter & Gordon,
The Birthday Party,
Y Pants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Althea and Donna,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ossler,
Schoolly D,
Mr. Review,
Stockholm Monsters,
Clear Light,
Wire,
Rapeman,
Blake Baxter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Whodini,
The Evens,
The Buckinghams,
PIL,
Outsiders,
Grey Daturas,
Morten Harket,
Sugar Minott,
Arthur Verocai,
The Victims,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.