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 Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 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 Sugar Minott to the grime 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Trumans Water,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Womack,
The Smiths,
JFA,
Severed Heads,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alphaville,
the Sonics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yusef Lateef,
Brass Construction,
Rekid,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Neon Judgement,
Camberwell Now,
Scientists,
Amon Düül,
The Last Poets,
La Düsseldorf,
Deakin,
Scan 7,
Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
Marmalade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Country Teasers,
Q65,
Althea and Donna,
Grandmaster Flash,
Morten Harket,
Ludus,
Angry Samoans,
The Slackers,
the Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
E-Dancer,
Janne Schatter,
Bill Near,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ultra Naté,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
R.M.O.,
Swell Maps,
Barbara Tucker,
Audionom,
The Sisters of Mercy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Albert Ayler,
The Tremeloes,
New Order,
Kevin Saunderson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.