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 Maldives and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 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 In Retrospect to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Jandek,
Dual Sessions,
Chris & Cosey,
The Toasters,
Anthony Braxton,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Main Source,
Gang Starr,
Agitation Free,
The United States of America,
10cc,
Reuben Wilson,
Shoche,
Colin Newman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Searchers,
Subhumans,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Soft Cell,
Prince Buster,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Doors,
Eve St. Jones,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pussy Galore,
Camberwell Now,
the Normal,
Skarface,
Qualms,
The Neon Judgement,
Los Fastidios,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Letta Mbulu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Erykah Badu,
Roy Ayers,
Lungfish,
Eric Dolphy,
The Selecter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Trumans Water,
Avey Tare,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eurythmics,
Byron Stingily,
Janne Schatter,
Carl Craig,
Warsaw,
the Slits,
Soulsonic Force,
ABBA,
Liliput,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Iggy Pop,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.