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 Syria and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes 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 Warsaw to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Buckinghams,
Television Personalities,
Liliput,
R.M.O.,
Derrick May,
June of 44,
The Walker Brothers,
Todd Rundgren,
Swans,
Donald Byrd,
Barrington Levy,
Patti Smith,
Donny Hathaway,
The Music Machine,
Joe Finger,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ronnie Foster,
Swell Maps,
a-ha,
Nas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mo-Dettes,
the Human League,
Babytalk,
Reuben Wilson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Drive Like Jehu,
Amon Düül,
The Slackers,
Panda Bear,
The Standells,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rakim,
Skaos,
Minny Pops,
Intrusion,
Max Romeo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rites of Spring,
Gang Starr,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scientists,
kango's stein massive,
Model 500,
Blancmange,
Albert Ayler,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Buzzcocks,
Archie Shepp,
Vladislav Delay,
Thee Headcoats,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fluxion,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.