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 Cameroon and from Accra.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Harpers Bizarre to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Sheep,
The Divine Comedy,
Skriet,
Silicon Teens,
Gong,
Ice-T,
Arab on Radar,
Althea and Donna,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Unrelated Segments,
Pagans,
Delta 5,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
Alphaville,
David Axelrod,
Duran Duran,
Oneida,
Chrome,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Motions,
R.M.O.,
Bush Tetras,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
In Retrospect,
MDC,
Connie Case,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sandy B,
Subhumans,
Tom Boy,
The Cure,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Barry Ungar,
Gichy Dan,
The Mummies,
Fort Wilson Riot,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Can,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lightning Bolt,
Jawbox,
New Age Steppers,
Sam Rivers,
Mad Mike,
Wally Richardson,
X-Ray Spex,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Matthew Halsall,
Cameo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.