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 Jordan and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Maleditus Sound to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Second Layer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Y Pants,
Oblivians,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Suburban Knight,
Black Flag,
Kayak,
ABBA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Buzzcocks,
Dawn Penn,
Graham Central Station,
The Slackers,
Hashim,
Loose Ends,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Procol Harum,
Gabor Szabo,
Bluetip,
Rites of Spring,
Index,
Tres Demented,
Tubeway Army,
Yusef Lateef,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kaleidoscope,
Lalann,
The Gories,
Siglo XX,
The Blues Magoos,
Prince Buster,
Soft Cell,
Pantaleimon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fall,
New York Dolls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rotary Connection,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Groovy Waters,
The Happenings,
Derrick Morgan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Real Kids,
Jeru the Damaja,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Whodini,
Idris Muhammad,
ABC,
Mandrill,
Smog,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Moon,
Sight & Sound,
Sandy B,
Unrelated Segments,
Archie Shepp,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.