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 Liechtenstein and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gong to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Tommy Roe,
Loose Ends,
the Human League,
Kas Product,
UT,
Aswad,
Neil Young,
This Heat,
Terry Callier,
The Black Dice,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Albert Ayler,
kango's stein massive,
Basic Channel,
The Gap Band,
Howard Jones,
Ronan,
The Slits,
Judy Mowatt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soul II Soul,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bauhaus,
Pierre Henry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Flash Fearless,
Gang of Four,
Audionom,
Bronski Beat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moebius,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Standells,
Cluster,
MDC,
Man Parrish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Litter,
Gil Scott Heron,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Barclay James Harvest,
Section 25,
Brick,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bush Tetras,
Dawn Penn,
Minutemen,
In Retrospect,
Ituana,
Johnny Clarke,
Con Funk Shun,
Unrelated Segments,
Sound Behaviour,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.