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 Slovenia and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
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 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 Scratch Acid to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
OOIOO,
The Pretty Things,
The Count Five,
The Monochrome Set,
Reagan Youth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Funky Four + One,
The Birthday Party,
Connie Case,
ABBA,
FM Einheit,
The Seeds,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eden Ahbez,
Shuggie Otis,
Sun City Girls,
Albert Ayler,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Gun Club,
Nas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kurtis Blow,
Charles Mingus,
Steve Hackett,
Audionom,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
Grauzone,
The Doobie Brothers,
Oblivians,
Mars,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
Groovy Waters,
Joey Negro,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Beau Brummels,
Rod Modell,
Japan,
U.S. Maple,
Cal Tjader,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Walker Brothers,
Dual Sessions,
Sam Rivers,
Aloha Tigers,
Radiohead,
Ponytail,
The Kinks,
Amon Düül II,
Camouflage,
The Litter,
Qualms,
Marmalade,
Cluster,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Womack,
Ornette Coleman,
Nico,
The Searchers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.