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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Angels of Light,
Sarah Menescal,
Barbara Tucker,
World's Most,
Mission of Burma,
China Crisis,
The Monochrome Set,
The Buckinghams,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kerri Chandler,
Darondo,
Sight & Sound,
Agent Orange,
Pet Shop Boys,
Stetsasonic,
The Gap Band,
Chrome,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crispy Ambulance,
Connie Case,
Underground Resistance,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pop Group,
Matthew Halsall,
Dave Gahan,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gories,
Ralphi Rosario,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Interpol,
Swell Maps,
Ornette Coleman,
Neu!,
The Wake,
The Evens,
June Days,
Eric Dolphy,
Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Rundgren,
Byron Stingily,
The Smiths,
Roxette,
The Litter,
Leonard Cohen,
Fear,
Hoover,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Golliwogs,
Technova,
FM Einheit,
Flipper,
Newcleus,
Sister Nancy,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.