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 Guyana and from Salvador.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Crime to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Sarah Menescal,
Arab on Radar,
Cluster,
L. Decosne,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Derrick May,
Sugar Minott,
Shoche,
Icehouse,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Darondo,
Technova,
Silicon Teens,
The Tremeloes,
Intrusion,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joe Finger,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Victims,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Maurizio,
Bobby Sherman,
Piero Umiliani,
Yaz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Buckinghams,
Tres Demented,
Banda Bassotti,
Erasure,
Brothers Johnson,
Grauzone,
Electric Prunes,
Thompson Twins,
Depeche Mode,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fatback Band,
Alton Ellis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Byrd,
Deepchord,
Black Bananas,
The Associates,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harmonia,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warsaw,
Sparks,
X-101,
Warren Ellis,
Ronan,
John Holt,
Los Fastidios,
The Gories,
Lebanon Hanover,
Oneida,
Popol Vuh,
Scion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.