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 Austria and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
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 snare 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 Black Sheep to the rock 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Kas Product,
Unwound,
Al Stewart,
Accadde A,
Blake Baxter,
Sound Behaviour,
Young Marble Giants,
Joensuu 1685,
Yaz,
The Associates,
Colin Newman,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Electric Prunes,
Thompson Twins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Blancmange,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Normal,
The Victims,
Marcia Griffiths,
Leonard Cohen,
Newcleus,
The Angels of Light,
Shoche,
The Velvet Underground,
Ice-T,
Erasure,
Lower 48,
Fatback Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Von Mondo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Byrd,
Andrew Hill,
Scratch Acid,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rosa Yemen,
Bang On A Can,
Model 500,
Easy Going,
The J.B.'s,
Organ,
The Five Americans,
Wire,
Eddi Front,
Oblivians,
Gastr Del Sol,
Spandau Ballet,
Funky Four + One,
Matthew Halsall,
Cluster,
Minnie Riperton,
Public Enemy,
the Bar-Kays,
the Association,
Babytalk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bill Wells,
Grandmaster Flash,
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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.