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 Italy and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 Television Personalities to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Kenny Larkin,
Brass Construction,
Zero Boys,
Joy Division,
FM Einheit,
Urselle,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sonic Youth,
Dual Sessions,
Pierre Henry,
David McCallum,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Electric Prunes,
Glenn Branca,
Camouflage,
Symarip,
Simply Red,
Cluster,
X-Ray Spex,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Unrelated Segments,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Music Machine,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Real Kids,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eurythmics,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alice Coltrane,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roy Ayers,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tres Demented,
Peter and Kerry,
The Slits,
The Raincoats,
Aloha Tigers,
John Cale,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Barclay James Harvest,
Marvin Gaye,
Suicide,
Unwound,
Kaleidoscope,
John Coltrane,
Quantec,
DNA,
Jandek,
Max Romeo,
Mark Hollis,
Dave Gahan,
Donny Hathaway,
The Smiths,
Dawn Penn,
Blancmange,
Excepter,
June Days,
Piero Umiliani,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.