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 Rwanda and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 mellotron 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 Boredoms to the grunge 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Deadbeat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Echospace,
Eurythmics,
Boz Scaggs,
Reuben Wilson,
Sam Rivers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Oblivians,
Althea and Donna,
The Smoke,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Slick Rick,
Chris Corsano,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Birthday Party,
Panda Bear,
Jesper Dahlback,
Brick,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sixth Finger,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronnie Foster,
Thompson Twins,
The Tremeloes,
The Music Machine,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sound Behaviour,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Litter,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pere Ubu,
Laurel Aitken,
Bluetip,
John Foxx,
Max Romeo,
Skarface,
Eric Dolphy,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Halsall,
Minny Pops,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Erasure,
Gil Scott Heron,
Silicon Teens,
Monolake,
Rites of Spring,
The Gories,
the Soft Cell,
Pantytec,
Alphaville,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronan,
Kenny Larkin,
Rosa Yemen,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Stetsasonic,
The Sonics,
In Retrospect,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.