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 Niger and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Clear Light to the rock 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 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 jazz 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Ronnie Foster,
Colin Newman,
Reuben Wilson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dave Gahan,
Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
Ronan,
The Young Rascals,
Con Funk Shun,
Camberwell Now,
The Count Five,
Max Romeo,
Brass Construction,
Robert Görl,
The Moleskins,
The Monochrome Set,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
The Durutti Column,
Sugar Minott,
Slave,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Bar-Kays,
Steve Hackett,
Leonard Cohen,
Faust,
DJ Sneak,
Rod Modell,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brothers Johnson,
Das Ding,
John Holt,
ABC,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wally Richardson,
Accadde A,
Bush Tetras,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Blake Baxter,
John Coltrane,
Saccharine Trust,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Henry Cow,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
The Martian,
Loose Ends,
John Lydon,
Thompson Twins,
Unwound,
Angry Samoans,
New Age Steppers,
Essential Logic,
The Skatalites,
Cameo,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Names,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.