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 Dominican Republic and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Judy Mowatt to the rock 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Quando Quango,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Japan,
Minny Pops,
kango's stein massive,
Unwound,
John Coltrane,
The Gun Club,
Jeff Mills,
Bluetip,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gabor Szabo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brick,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sun Ra,
Darondo,
Mission of Burma,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Count Five,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Graham Central Station,
The Pretty Things,
Bill Near,
Soulsonic Force,
Fluxion,
Porter Ricks,
Scott Walker,
Kenny Larkin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Morten Harket,
B.T. Express,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Monolake,
MC5,
KRS-One,
Excepter,
Gong,
Shoche,
This Heat,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cheater Slicks,
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
The Raincoats,
Yusef Lateef,
The Real Kids,
Jacques Brel,
Wings,
Sandy B,
Minor Threat,
Eddi Front,
Ken Boothe,
Black Bananas,
Maurizio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Wire,
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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.