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 Solomon Islands and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grunge 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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Fugazi,
UT,
Byron Stingily,
Flash Fearless,
The Real Kids,
Hashim,
Ten City,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Neon Judgement,
Goldenarms,
Swell Maps,
Mark Hollis,
Sun Ra,
Johnny Clarke,
Wally Richardson,
Make Up,
Frankie Knuckles,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dark Day,
Scan 7,
Joey Negro,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Cecil Taylor,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Joe Finger,
Basic Channel,
The Remains,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barrington Levy,
Minnie Riperton,
Pagans,
Mr. Review,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Wake,
Ken Boothe,
Tears for Fears,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Sonics,
The Standells,
Roger Hodgson,
The Moleskins,
World's Most,
Intrusion,
Alphaville,
Organ,
Archie Shepp,
Patti Smith,
The Zeros,
Jerry's Kids,
Pharoah Sanders,
Youth Brigade,
MDC,
Eden Ahbez,
James White and The Blacks,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.