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 Bahrain and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Winnipeg.
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 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 Robert Palmer 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 Main Source to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Dark Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Avey Tare,
Public Enemy,
Monolake,
Sound Behaviour,
The Moleskins,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wings,
Alphaville,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Saints,
Scrapy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sonics,
Urselle,
Johnny Clarke,
Lungfish,
Oneida,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang On A Can,
Public Image Ltd.,
Desert Stars,
Nirvana,
The J.B.'s,
Organ,
The Electric Prunes,
Minny Pops,
Circle Jerks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Junior Murvin,
Flash Fearless,
Jandek,
Anthony Braxton,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joy Division,
Pierre Henry,
Judy Mowatt,
Donny Hathaway,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brass Construction,
Radio Birdman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Country Teasers,
Lakeside,
Stetsasonic,
The Kinks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Quando Quango,
The Human League,
Blake Baxter,
Freddie Wadling,
Joey Negro,
The Birthday Party,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.