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 Tajikistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the funk 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
The Moleskins,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalann,
Black Pus,
New Age Steppers,
Slick Rick,
Kaleidoscope,
Spoonie Gee,
K-Klass,
Simply Red,
Heaven 17,
The Pretty Things,
the Swans,
Ultra Naté,
DNA,
Joensuu 1685,
Kenny Larkin,
Deepchord,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jawbox,
Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Donny Hathaway,
Byron Stingily,
Steve Hackett,
Susan Cadogan,
Neu!,
Angry Samoans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visage,
Interpol,
Henry Cow,
Make Up,
Electric Prunes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-102,
Althea and Donna,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Theoretical Girls,
The Stooges,
Chris Corsano,
AZ,
The Golliwogs,
Lyres,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Clarke,
Tears for Fears,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pierre Henry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Schoolly D,
The Durutti Column,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arab on Radar,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Victims,
10cc,
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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.