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 Argentina and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Junior Murvin to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Unrelated Segments,
Cluster,
Mad Mike,
Delta 5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scientists,
Leonard Cohen,
Radio Birdman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Derrick Morgan,
Maurizio,
Barry Ungar,
Boz Scaggs,
Faraquet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Sherman,
Bootsy Collins,
Joensuu 1685,
Deakin,
Eric Dolphy,
Flipper,
Bang On A Can,
Ohio Players,
Stereo Dub,
Peter & Gordon,
Newcleus,
FM Einheit,
cv313,
Brick,
The Busters,
The Misunderstood,
Neil Young,
The Remains,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
AZ,
Massinfluence,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Oblivians,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bauhaus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lalann,
The Walker Brothers,
The Happenings,
June Days,
Negative Approach,
Khruangbin,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Neon Judgement,
Wire,
Aural Exciters,
The Blackbyrds,
Quadrant,
Jerry's Kids,
Scratch Acid,
Pole,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fad Gadget,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.