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 Croatia and from Paris.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Country Teasers to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Last Poets record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Lindisfarne,
Au Pairs,
The Music Machine,
Dennis Brown,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen,
Piero Umiliani,
Yusef Lateef,
the Soft Cell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Todd Rundgren,
Ken Boothe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Silicon Teens,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Residents,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mission of Burma,
The Smiths,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kenny Larkin,
Hashim,
Eurythmics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Flag,
Japan,
Althea and Donna,
Slick Rick,
One Last Wish,
Chris Corsano,
Cal Tjader,
The Knickerbockers,
Slave,
The Birthday Party,
Crash Course in Science,
T. Rex,
a-ha,
June of 44,
The Fuzztones,
Intrusion,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Danielle Patucci,
Moby Grape,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bronski Beat,
The Offenders,
Y Pants,
The Sonics,
The Star Department,
Talk Talk,
The Smoke,
Absolute Body Control,
The Moleskins,
Ten City,
Radio Birdman,
KRS-One,
Ice-T,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.