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 Malaysia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Dawn Penn to the dance 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Q and Not U,
Gang of Four,
Hashim,
Scan 7,
Cheater Slicks,
Pantytec,
Morten Harket,
Spandau Ballet,
Second Layer,
Lucky Dragons,
Wolf Eyes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gun Club,
The Fire Engines,
The Cowsills,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Brick,
Cecil Taylor,
Simply Red,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Faust,
Davy DMX,
Japan,
Dual Sessions,
The Gladiators,
Ronan,
The Cramps,
Bush Tetras,
New Age Steppers,
Shuggie Otis,
Guru Guru,
Pierre Henry,
The Mummies,
Radiohead,
Ituana,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Susan Cadogan,
Rod Modell,
The Beau Brummels,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Techniques,
Howard Jones,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Fania All-Stars,
David Axelrod,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dirtbombs,
The Index,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
Liliput,
Masters at Work,
Yaz,
Laurel Aitken,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cluster,
John Holt,
Unwound,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.