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 Thailand and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Animal Collective to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camouflage,
John Foxx,
The Kinks,
Robert Görl,
Tres Demented,
Derrick Morgan,
Infiniti,
Erykah Badu,
Gastr Del Sol,
Index,
Interpol,
Goldenarms,
Frankie Knuckles,
Hoover,
Oneida,
The Mojo Men,
Khruangbin,
Audionom,
Skriet,
Accadde A,
Drexciya,
Godley & Creme,
Rakim,
Kas Product,
FM Einheit,
Aloha Tigers,
Ken Boothe,
The Vogues,
Clear Light,
Technova,
Flash Fearless,
Banda Bassotti,
Pierre Henry,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gladiators,
ABC,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cameo,
Maurizio,
Duran Duran,
Bang On A Can,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric Copeland,
Lalann,
Don Cherry,
Fatback Band,
The Busters,
Pylon,
Unwound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fad Gadget,
Swell Maps,
David McCallum,
Yusef Lateef,
Robert Wyatt,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.