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 Grenada and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Von Mondo to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Khruangbin,
The Fugs,
Dawn Penn,
Moss Icon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DNA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lakeside,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eric Dolphy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barrington Levy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lalann,
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eddi Front,
Sound Behaviour,
Kevin Saunderson,
Erasure,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Max Romeo,
Television Personalities,
Yusef Lateef,
The Wake,
Cameo,
World's Most,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pierre Henry,
Intrusion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Teasers,
Cluster,
Bobby Byrd,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Suburban Knight,
The Grass Roots,
Aloha Tigers,
Agent Orange,
Rakim,
Ultravox,
Gabor Szabo,
Radio Birdman,
Mark Hollis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Q and Not U,
Danielle Patucci,
Ituana,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Monks,
The Pretty Things,
Amazonics,
The Slits,
Barry Ungar,
Funkadelic,
The Tremeloes,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.