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 Namibia and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Model 500 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Christie,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hot Snakes,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Slits,
Letta Mbulu,
LL Cool J,
Matthew Halsall,
Iggy Pop,
Anakelly,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Loose Ends,
Slick Rick,
H. Thieme,
Ludus,
Wolf Eyes,
The Music Machine,
The Pop Group,
MC5,
Mo-Dettes,
Zero Boys,
Quando Quango,
The Saints,
Ituana,
Bobby Sherman,
Ten City,
Oneida,
The Martian,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeff Lynne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Public Enemy,
Qualms,
Scientists,
Porter Ricks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Dead C,
Clear Light,
Sound Behaviour,
the Soft Cell,
Heaven 17,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gabor Szabo,
Spandau Ballet,
Brothers Johnson,
Glenn Branca,
China Crisis,
the Germs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soulsonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Pretty Things,
Robert Görl,
Darondo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.