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 Afghanistan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 June Days to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Easy Going,
Alton Ellis,
Prince Buster,
Nils Olav,
Matthew Halsall,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Moon,
The Cure,
Sonic Youth,
Liliput,
the Sonics,
The Monochrome Set,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rakim,
Smog,
Bluetip,
JFA,
Joe Smooth,
Stereo Dub,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Darondo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Toni Rubio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Sherman,
Visage,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jeff Lynne,
Silicon Teens,
Juan Atkins,
Cluster,
Boz Scaggs,
Depeche Mode,
World's Most,
The Moody Blues,
The Fuzztones,
Country Teasers,
Ponytail,
Black Sheep,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Procol Harum,
Stiv Bators,
Anakelly,
The Invisible,
Aloha Tigers,
Maleditus Sound,
Adolescents,
OOIOO,
The Saints,
the Normal,
Sex Pistols,
Symarip,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Busters,
Ohio Players,
The Victims,
Robert Hood,
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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.