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 Zambia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba 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 Delta 5 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Standells. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Eric Copeland,
Loose Ends,
Dorothy Ashby,
Can,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Althea and Donna,
Lower 48,
DNA,
Franke,
Alison Limerick,
Spandau Ballet,
The Beau Brummels,
The Dead C,
Aaron Thompson,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brand Nubian,
Parry Music,
Trumans Water,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Mills,
Suburban Knight,
Ronnie Foster,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Graham Central Station,
The Monochrome Set,
Dual Sessions,
The Motions,
New Age Steppers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Sheep,
The Star Department,
the Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Susan Cadogan,
Tomorrow,
Hardrive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deadbeat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Average White Band,
Thompson Twins,
The Misunderstood,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fall,
Panda Bear,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Matthew Bourne,
MC5,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Mark Hollis,
Deepchord,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.