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 Norway and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Minutemen to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Half Japanese,
Wire,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Duran Duran,
Parry Music,
Moebius,
Judy Mowatt,
Joensuu 1685,
The Last Poets,
Gastr Del Sol,
Anthony Braxton,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spoonie Gee,
The Birthday Party,
The Cure,
Derrick May,
Altered Images,
Rites of Spring,
John Holt,
Eddi Front,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Mojo Men,
Neil Young,
Silicon Teens,
Deadbeat,
The Residents,
Dorothy Ashby,
Animal Collective,
The Monochrome Set,
The Vogues,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nation of Ulysses,
FM Einheit,
Davy DMX,
The Techniques,
Von Mondo,
June Days,
Wally Richardson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sex Pistols,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yellowson,
Unrelated Segments,
Fatback Band,
Scratch Acid,
Mark Hollis,
Intrusion,
Angry Samoans,
Pussy Galore,
Heaven 17,
Newcleus,
Marc Almond,
The Remains,
Pagans,
Cheater Slicks,
Jacques Brel,
Nas,
John Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lou Christie,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiopuhelimet,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.