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 Latvia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Faraquet to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk 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 '90s.
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 Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scratch Acid,
Popol Vuh,
Scott Walker,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
Kayak,
Massinfluence,
Mad Mike,
David McCallum,
Rekid,
Make Up,
Model 500,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hashim,
The Invisible,
The Cowsills,
Jandek,
Throbbing Gristle,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Smiths,
The Cramps,
X-Ray Spex,
The Zeros,
K-Klass,
Rakim,
Chris & Cosey,
Roger Hodgson,
John Holt,
Audionom,
The Seeds,
Royal Trux,
Kurtis Blow,
The Moleskins,
Heaven 17,
Khruangbin,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Flag,
Excepter,
La Düsseldorf,
Derrick Morgan,
Eurythmics,
Jimmy McGriff,
Faust,
Procol Harum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delta 5,
Traffic Nightmare,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Darondo,
Slave,
the Soft Cell,
Terry Callier,
Thee Headcoats,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter & Gordon,
Minor Threat,
The Leaves,
Harry Pussy,
Gang of Four,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.