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 Cape Verde and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Simply Red to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Motions,
The Happenings,
Japan,
The Leaves,
John Foxx,
Faust,
Eurythmics,
Scan 7,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moody Blues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pantytec,
Tomorrow,
Eden Ahbez,
The Shadows of Knight,
In Retrospect,
Throbbing Gristle,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Michelle Simonal,
Kurtis Blow,
The Vogues,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun Ra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alice Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Crash Course in Science,
B.T. Express,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Velvet Underground,
Ohio Players,
Radiopuhelimet,
KRS-One,
Prince Buster,
Skaos,
Mars,
Connie Case,
Essential Logic,
Section 25,
The Cure,
Severed Heads,
Robert Wyatt,
Chris Corsano,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Unwound,
Nick Fraelich,
Dark Day,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Count Five,
PIL,
The Gun Club,
Marc Almond,
Aloha Tigers,
Radiohead,
The Durutti Column,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.