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 Denmark and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
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 sitar 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 Eddi Front to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
Rakim,
Erasure,
Amazonics,
the Sonics,
The Seeds,
The Birthday Party,
Subhumans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Motions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Smoke,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crispian St. Peters,
Funky Four + One,
Minutemen,
OOIOO,
Magma,
The Real Kids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Davy DMX,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fuzztones,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Style,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ronan,
Yellowson,
Make Up,
Loose Ends,
The United States of America,
Los Fastidios,
Pussy Galore,
The J.B.'s,
Sonic Youth,
Popol Vuh,
Roxette,
Tomorrow,
Max Romeo,
Heaven 17,
Delon & Dalcan,
Isaac Hayes,
The Count Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
Symarip,
L. Decosne,
Cecil Taylor,
ABBA,
The Gap Band,
Negative Approach,
Black Bananas,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.