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 Austria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Bob Dylan to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Delta 5,
Eurythmics,
Dead Boys,
Electric Prunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Blancmange,
The Cure,
Masters at Work,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
EPMD,
Stereo Dub,
Flipper,
Robert Wyatt,
Bootsy Collins,
David Axelrod,
Bill Wells,
Urselle,
the Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Rekid,
The Music Machine,
Echospace,
The Dead C,
Yellowson,
Tubeway Army,
Fad Gadget,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Porter Ricks,
Faust,
Jacob Miller,
Dual Sessions,
Gerry Rafferty,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dennis Brown,
Derrick Morgan,
H. Thieme,
The Wake,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
FM Einheit,
Kenny Larkin,
Roy Ayers,
ABC,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Smog,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultra Naté,
The American Breed,
Crooked Eye,
DNA,
Wasted Youth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Steve Hackett,
CMW,
Lalann,
X-102,
Cymande,
The Gap Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.