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 Iran and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Zero Boys to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Essential Logic,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Smiths,
Bill Wells,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick Morgan,
Marmalade,
Quantec,
Godley & Creme,
Fluxion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker,
Boredoms,
The Victims,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bush Tetras,
Clear Light,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Litter,
F. McDonald,
The Dave Clark Five,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kerri Chandler,
Neil Young,
Fat Boys,
Black Sheep,
Shuggie Otis,
Black Flag,
Rakim,
The Modern Lovers,
Soft Cell,
Derrick May,
Crash Course in Science,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Mummies,
Aaron Thompson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Happenings,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Skatalites,
The Mojo Men,
Moss Icon,
Loose Ends,
Darondo,
Cal Tjader,
Groovy Waters,
Youth Brigade,
Index,
AZ,
Donald Byrd,
Accadde A,
The Dead C,
Kayak,
Soul II Soul,
Talk Talk,
Surgeon,
Alison Limerick,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.