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 Bhutan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Intrusion to the electroclash 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Alison Limerick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bang On A Can,
The Leaves,
Pierre Henry,
Joensuu 1685,
Barrington Levy,
Subhumans,
Donny Hathaway,
Fluxion,
Soul II Soul,
The Sonics,
The Angels of Light,
Minutemen,
The Neon Judgement,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rites of Spring,
Mantronix,
Fad Gadget,
8 Eyed Spy,
H. Thieme,
Whodini,
The Young Rascals,
Barbara Tucker,
Steve Hackett,
Section 25,
Archie Shepp,
Don Cherry,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
X-Ray Spex,
Saccharine Trust,
Talk Talk,
Suicide,
Sparks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
Sällskapet,
Susan Cadogan,
Skriet,
Marine Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dawn Penn,
Television Personalities,
Sight & Sound,
Funky Four + One,
Scott Walker,
Japan,
Fugazi,
Guru Guru,
Letta Mbulu,
Quantec,
Howard Jones,
New York Dolls,
Roxy Music,
The Gladiators,
Procol Harum,
The Mojo Men,
X-102,
The Slackers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minor Threat,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.