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 Vanuatu and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Parry Music to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Slave,
Radio Birdman,
The Happenings,
Section 25,
Patti Smith,
Laurel Aitken,
John Coltrane,
Black Flag,
Joyce Sims,
The Pop Group,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Wyatt,
Little Man,
John Foxx,
The Five Americans,
Khruangbin,
David Axelrod,
Faraquet,
David Bowie,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Leaves,
Technova,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camberwell Now,
Peter and Kerry,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pulsallama,
The Fortunes,
Thompson Twins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fear,
Can,
Arab on Radar,
Smog,
MDC,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cluster,
Ossler,
Barry Ungar,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang Green,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Hood,
The Residents,
Terry Callier,
JFA,
Lyres,
Das Ding,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lungfish,
Spandau Ballet,
Boogie Down Productions,
La Düsseldorf,
Theoretical Girls,
The Gap Band,
Organ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Parry Music,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.