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 Saudi Arabia and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Black Pus to the rock 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Radiohead,
Main Source,
10cc,
Wire,
Agitation Free,
the Association,
Kurtis Blow,
Joy Division,
Sister Nancy,
Andrew Hill,
Ultravox,
Harmonia,
Steve Hackett,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
EPMD,
Terrestrial Tones,
Johnny Clarke,
Flash Fearless,
Yazoo,
Magazine,
Glenn Branca,
Camberwell Now,
Derrick Morgan,
Can,
New Age Steppers,
Gong,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Trojans,
Roger Hodgson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Wyatt,
Eurythmics,
Swell Maps,
H. Thieme,
KRS-One,
Todd Terry,
Jacques Brel,
Parry Music,
Model 500,
Henry Cow,
Rod Modell,
Wolf Eyes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marc Almond,
The Music Machine,
Yusef Lateef,
the Sonics,
Moby Grape,
Warren Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Radio Birdman,
Pantaleimon,
Eve St. Jones,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.