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 Mongolia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 spring reverb 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 Livin' Joy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Massinfluence,
X-Ray Spex,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young,
Black Moon,
Jerry's Kids,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Slackers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Holt,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Bananas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Surgeon,
Rapeman,
Stereo Dub,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fugs,
Grey Daturas,
Urselle,
The Beau Brummels,
Public Enemy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gang of Four,
Lakeside,
Gong,
Half Japanese,
Quadrant,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
a-ha,
Crispy Ambulance,
Toni Rubio,
Tears for Fears,
Sex Pistols,
Roxy Music,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Motorama,
Scratch Acid,
Donny Hathaway,
The Cramps,
The Detroit Cobras,
Blake Baxter,
Godley & Creme,
Joey Negro,
Ten City,
the Association,
Joyce Sims,
Isaac Hayes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Can,
Scientists,
Arcadia,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pulsallama,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.