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 Croatia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Grey Daturas to the electroclash 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
UT,
Can,
DJ Sneak,
Pussy Galore,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Moby Grape,
Brothers Johnson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lungfish,
Robert Hood,
Liliput,
Fat Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Procol Harum,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wolf Eyes,
Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Janne Schatter,
June Days,
Swans,
Ludus,
EPMD,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scan 7,
Soulsonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Donny Hathaway,
Heaven 17,
Popol Vuh,
Drexciya,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Hutcherson,
kango's stein massive,
Kerri Chandler,
Matthew Halsall,
Albert Ayler,
Johnny Osbourne,
Freddie Wadling,
Stetsasonic,
Juan Atkins,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Adolescents,
Smog,
Blancmange,
Bill Wells,
The Moody Blues,
New Age Steppers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.