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 Dominica and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
The Remains,
Colin Newman,
Altered Images,
Oneida,
Hoover,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zero Boys,
Chris Corsano,
Joe Finger,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Buckinghams,
Severed Heads,
Khruangbin,
The Techniques,
Adolescents,
Gil Scott Heron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Sherman,
Mad Mike,
David Axelrod,
John Lydon,
Erykah Badu,
Agent Orange,
Crime,
Todd Terry,
Fear,
Yellowson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minor Threat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wolf Eyes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Suburban Knight,
The Slits,
Matthew Bourne,
The Black Dice,
The Moody Blues,
Cheater Slicks,
DJ Style,
One Last Wish,
The Raincoats,
K-Klass,
Mr. Review,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang of Four,
Sparks,
Delta 5,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Easy Going,
The Zeros,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camouflage,
D'Angelo,
Masters at Work,
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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.