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 Czech Republic and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Sam Rivers to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
ABC,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pussy Galore,
Andrew Hill,
8 Eyed Spy,
Slick Rick,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wire,
Todd Rundgren,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Radiohead,
The Monks,
The Star Department,
In Retrospect,
Eddi Front,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Modern Lovers,
Massinfluence,
Gastr Del Sol,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Skatalites,
The Blackbyrds,
Bluetip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Derrick May,
Angry Samoans,
Delta 5,
Godley & Creme,
Goldenarms,
The Names,
Toni Rubio,
The Selecter,
Maurizio,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash,
Can,
The Zeros,
Soft Cell,
Brass Construction,
Talk Talk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Order,
Gang Starr,
Ken Boothe,
Johnny Osbourne,
Swans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Electric Prunes,
The New Christs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Susan Cadogan,
The Tremeloes,
Don Cherry,
Jawbox,
Drexciya,
Graham Central Station,
John Lydon,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.