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 Australia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Milan.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
The Mojo Men,
Tomorrow,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ornette Coleman,
Television,
Amon Düül,
Vainqueur,
Sam Rivers,
Cybotron,
Minny Pops,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slick Rick,
The Vogues,
Arcadia,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fela Kuti,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Qualms,
the Sonics,
the Normal,
The Stooges,
Section 25,
Tim Buckley,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Kinks,
Television Personalities,
Scion,
Anthony Braxton,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stetsasonic,
Reagan Youth,
Brothers Johnson,
Fad Gadget,
Ohio Players,
Ultimate Spinach,
Guru Guru,
The Cowsills,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eddi Front,
The Associates,
Ituana,
Bauhaus,
Oblivians,
Aaron Thompson,
Soulsonic Force,
Sparks,
Los Fastidios,
Derrick May,
Newcleus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
Matthew Bourne,
Lakeside,
Curtis Mayfield,
David McCallum,
Infiniti,
Kenny Larkin,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.