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 Paraguay and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Organ to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Wake,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nils Olav,
Black Sheep,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Juan Atkins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Massinfluence,
Bush Tetras,
Symarip,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Golliwogs,
T.S.O.L.,
Howard Jones,
Matthew Bourne,
Godley & Creme,
The Walker Brothers,
Rites of Spring,
The Human League,
The Pop Group,
Black Moon,
Glenn Branca,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Chrome,
Das Ding,
Gang Starr,
Judy Mowatt,
Zapp,
MC5,
Country Teasers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sonny Sharrock,
Janne Schatter,
Cheater Slicks,
Ossler,
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Stereo Dub,
The Blackbyrds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Litter,
Mark Hollis,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxy Music,
Wings,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Darondo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Can,
Jeff Mills,
FM Einheit,
Eve St. Jones,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.