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 Malta and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Alton Ellis to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
The Stooges,
Shuggie Otis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sight & Sound,
Black Moon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Theoretical Girls,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Suicide,
Girls At Our Best!,
Loose Ends,
Nils Olav,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gabor Szabo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Urselle,
The Saints,
The Smiths,
Tom Boy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Pus,
The Monochrome Set,
Traffic Nightmare,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Royal Trux,
Lindisfarne,
Cluster,
Piero Umiliani,
Pylon,
Chris Corsano,
Vladislav Delay,
Faust,
Unwound,
Average White Band,
Anthony Braxton,
The Victims,
The Golliwogs,
The Slackers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The New Christs,
New Age Steppers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ken Boothe,
Rod Modell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Busters,
Fat Boys,
Make Up,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roxette,
Grey Daturas,
Camberwell Now,
Susan Cadogan,
Mission of Burma,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.