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 Eritrea and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Sugar Minott to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Ronan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alphaville,
James White and The Blacks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nick Fraelich,
Amon Düül II,
Rotary Connection,
Boredoms,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Das Ding,
The Modern Lovers,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young,
Trumans Water,
Tubeway Army,
Max Romeo,
Oblivians,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joyce Sims,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ludus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brass Construction,
Grey Daturas,
Crime,
The Dirtbombs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Slits,
Todd Rundgren,
Scan 7,
Funkadelic,
David McCallum,
Gichy Dan,
Terry Callier,
Marshall Jefferson,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Stooges,
The Buckinghams,
One Last Wish,
FM Einheit,
Fad Gadget,
Johnny Clarke,
Ten City,
Gang Green,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hashim,
Black Pus,
Godley & Creme,
Joe Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pantaleimon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Theoretical Girls,
The Residents,
the Sonics,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scion,
The Slackers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.