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 Copenhagen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 linndrum 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 Joe Smooth to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Michelle Simonal,
Marc Almond,
48th St. Collective,
John Foxx,
Jeff Mills,
Deadbeat,
Rotary Connection,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kenny Larkin,
Public Enemy,
Harmonia,
Lindisfarne,
Newcleus,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fugs,
Amon Düül II,
The Red Krayola,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Monks,
Mission of Burma,
Thee Headcoats,
One Last Wish,
The Real Kids,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kas Product,
The Techniques,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Henry Cow,
Silicon Teens,
kango's stein massive,
Buzzcocks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Albert Ayler,
B.T. Express,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Q65,
Fluxion,
Kurtis Blow,
The Slits,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Easy Going,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cal Tjader,
Brass Construction,
Dawn Penn,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Monks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Intrusion,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Cale,
Jawbox,
Adolescents,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lucky Dragons,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.