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 Belgium and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Moss Icon to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Youth Brigade,
Hardrive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
Toni Rubio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABBA,
Lee Hazlewood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Liliput,
Main Source,
Robert Görl,
Donald Byrd,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Khruangbin,
UT,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Drexciya,
Gang of Four,
Siglo XX,
Joe Smooth,
Monks,
Warren Ellis,
The Cure,
Yusef Lateef,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nick Fraelich,
Hashim,
Sight & Sound,
Amazonics,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nils Olav,
Amon Düül II,
The Cramps,
Trumans Water,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Star Department,
Silicon Teens,
Pantaleimon,
Camberwell Now,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lou Reed,
Dave Gahan,
Lakeside,
Gong,
The Beau Brummels,
Scrapy,
Howard Jones,
Sonny Sharrock,
Banda Bassotti,
Skarface,
The Black Dice,
Sister Nancy,
D'Angelo,
Soft Cell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.