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 Liechtenstein and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Grauzone,
The Red Krayola,
The Slackers,
Blancmange,
E-Dancer,
Sound Behaviour,
La Düsseldorf,
Josef K,
Funky Four + One,
Maleditus Sound,
U.S. Maple,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Wake,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stereo Dub,
Sun Ra,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dead Boys,
Jeff Mills,
The Gap Band,
Skarface,
Silicon Teens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantytec,
Peter & Gordon,
Jandek,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Soft Cell,
Davy DMX,
The Tremeloes,
Section 25,
Deadbeat,
Con Funk Shun,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Flash Fearless,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lucky Dragons,
Thompson Twins,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Slits,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bluetip,
The Divine Comedy,
The Cowsills,
Althea and Donna,
The Music Machine,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Porter Ricks,
Absolute Body Control,
The Doors,
Stockholm Monsters,
Radiopuhelimet,
Robert Wyatt,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.