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 New Zealand and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Philadelphia.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Excepter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Hasil Adkins,
The Names,
Animal Collective,
Fear,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Erykah Badu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Trumans Water,
Minutemen,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Oblivians,
Rufus Thomas,
The Beau Brummels,
Au Pairs,
Eric Dolphy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tears for Fears,
Sound Behaviour,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Black Flag,
Jerry's Kids,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Nas,
The Neon Judgement,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Suburban Knight,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Associates,
Darondo,
Piero Umiliani,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Moon,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band,
Shuggie Otis,
The Index,
Shoche,
David McCallum,
The Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
F. McDonald,
The Smiths,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Cure,
Marshall Jefferson,
Zero Boys,
Accadde A,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Blackbyrds,
Mission of Burma,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.