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 Malta and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 The Fire Engines to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker,
Jerry's Kids,
The Monochrome Set,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Thompson Twins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Glenn Branca,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gong,
Con Funk Shun,
FM Einheit,
Ten City,
Porter Ricks,
Sugar Minott,
Blancmange,
Todd Terry,
Jacob Miller,
the Bar-Kays,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Vogues,
Piero Umiliani,
Blossom Toes,
Nils Olav,
Ronan,
UT,
Lou Christie,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cal Tjader,
Animal Collective,
Nick Fraelich,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Los Fastidios,
Michelle Simonal,
Tubeway Army,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Organ,
Dawn Penn,
John Foxx,
Suicide,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
New Age Steppers,
Junior Murvin,
The Fall,
This Heat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jeff Mills,
The Litter,
Fat Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Quadrant,
Bad Manners,
Can,
Anthony Braxton,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Moody Blues,
Lakeside,
The Electric Prunes,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.