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 Cambodia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Graham Central Station to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
the Normal,
The Victims,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Electric Prunes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eve St. Jones,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jeff Mills,
The Monks,
Mars,
The Smiths,
Dave Gahan,
Urselle,
Ponytail,
Echospace,
Aswad,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Easy Going,
Altered Images,
The Divine Comedy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nils Olav,
Rotary Connection,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun Ra,
Joensuu 1685,
New Order,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cheater Slicks,
Jandek,
The Music Machine,
Fugazi,
Moebius,
Brass Construction,
One Last Wish,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Standells,
Rosa Yemen,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camberwell Now,
Khruangbin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Tom Boy,
Harmonia,
Pere Ubu,
Pylon,
Colin Newman,
Ituana,
Patti Smith,
Talk Talk,
Quando Quango,
F. McDonald,
Nirvana,
The Smoke,
Robert Wyatt,
Kayak,
Harry Pussy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.