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 Colombia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the grime 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-Ray Spex,
The Buckinghams,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Warren Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Selecter,
Archie Shepp,
Khruangbin,
Negative Approach,
Infiniti,
Aswad,
Johnny Clarke,
Lyres,
Excepter,
Siglo XX,
The Remains,
The Monochrome Set,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
Brand Nubian,
Fluxion,
Max Romeo,
John Holt,
Deadbeat,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dark Day,
Donald Byrd,
The United States of America,
AZ,
Pere Ubu,
Surgeon,
Ken Boothe,
The Gories,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dennis Brown,
Patti Smith,
Whodini,
Bizarre Inc.,
Easy Going,
Subhumans,
Alphaville,
Maleditus Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Camouflage,
Shuggie Otis,
Spoonie Gee,
Graham Central Station,
Jacques Brel,
Eden Ahbez,
Blossom Toes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
June Days,
Darondo,
Jandek,
Adolescents,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.