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 Vietnam and from Halifax.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
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 marimba 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 Peter & Gordon to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Albert Ayler,
Panda Bear,
Khruangbin,
Cymande,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mad Mike,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sugar Minott,
Toni Rubio,
Gang of Four,
The Motions,
Hasil Adkins,
The Index,
Janne Schatter,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Saccharine Trust,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nick Fraelich,
the Human League,
Dead Boys,
Jandek,
The Searchers,
The Wake,
Unwound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Vogues,
Jeff Mills,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gun Club,
Mars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The American Breed,
John Holt,
Joyce Sims,
The Busters,
Inner City,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Michelle Simonal,
Kevin Saunderson,
Banda Bassotti,
Metal Thangz,
Television,
The Buckinghams,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Trumans Water,
X-Ray Spex,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Motorama,
Ronan,
Symarip,
Ultimate Spinach,
Robert Görl,
Icehouse,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.