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 Macedonia and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Doors to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Siglo XX,
The Raincoats,
Ludus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Mandrill,
Lebanon Hanover,
Organ,
Alice Coltrane,
The Fire Engines,
John Coltrane,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
MC5,
Barbara Tucker,
Scion,
10cc,
Stetsasonic,
Wasted Youth,
Con Funk Shun,
Terry Callier,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
a-ha,
Fluxion,
Chrome,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Young Rascals,
Funky Four + One,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marmalade,
Sister Nancy,
Soft Machine,
Darondo,
UT,
Model 500,
Parry Music,
Excepter,
Tres Demented,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlback,
OOIOO,
Letta Mbulu,
Joe Finger,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
The Pop Group,
Dennis Brown,
X-102,
The Doors,
Crash Course in Science,
Mr. Review,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fela Kuti,
Al Stewart,
Icehouse,
Hardrive,
Niagra,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Slits,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.