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 Benin and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Aloha Tigers to the jazz 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '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 Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Minor Threat,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Shuggie Otis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lalann,
Archie Shepp,
Albert Ayler,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Glenn Branca,
Severed Heads,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jeff Mills,
The Standells,
Aswad,
Supertramp,
Bill Wells,
Panda Bear,
Gang Green,
Sister Nancy,
Sparks,
JFA,
AZ,
Quantec,
the Soft Cell,
The Victims,
Oblivians,
Amazonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Be Bop Deluxe,
FM Einheit,
Drexciya,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fatback Band,
Letta Mbulu,
The J.B.'s,
Faraquet,
Sandy B,
ABBA,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soul II Soul,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Detroit Cobras,
Porter Ricks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Christie,
H. Thieme,
the Swans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tommy Roe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare,
Deepchord,
Boz Scaggs,
Flipper,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Selecter,
The Cowsills,
Lucky Dragons,
U.S. Maple,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.