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 United States and from Manchester.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 the Slits to the rock 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Amon Düül,
Qualms,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Nico,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roxy Music,
The Electric Prunes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Robert Wyatt,
Tommy Roe,
Cameo,
This Heat,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Grass Roots,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Monks,
Heaven 17,
Lungfish,
The Toasters,
The Buckinghams,
Gang of Four,
Robert Hood,
Jawbox,
Babytalk,
Smog,
The Raincoats,
Eddi Front,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantaleimon,
Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Lyres,
Swans,
The Techniques,
La Düsseldorf,
Man Eating Sloth,
Colin Newman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Leonard Cohen,
China Crisis,
Franke,
The Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
Ten City,
Underground Resistance,
10cc,
Siglo XX,
Shuggie Otis,
Nick Fraelich,
Jandek,
Darondo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Khruangbin,
Ken Boothe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.