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 Bahamas and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Technova to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Gregory Isaacs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dark Day,
Don Cherry,
Cecil Taylor,
Freddie Wadling,
Archie Shepp,
Camberwell Now,
Johnny Osbourne,
Blancmange,
Agitation Free,
The Stooges,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Reuben Wilson,
Joey Negro,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shuggie Otis,
JFA,
Charles Mingus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Patti Smith,
The Moleskins,
The Count Five,
Altered Images,
Icehouse,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Model 500,
Lungfish,
The Skatalites,
Dave Gahan,
Isaac Hayes,
Mandrill,
Roxy Music,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bill Near,
The Mojo Men,
The Flesh Eaters,
DJ Style,
Slick Rick,
Kaleidoscope,
Nils Olav,
Schoolly D,
Matthew Halsall,
Laurel Aitken,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Throbbing Gristle,
World's Most,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Flag,
Alice Coltrane,
Section 25,
Fear,
Flipper,
48th St. Collective,
Skarface,
Brick,
Organ,
Bobby Womack,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.