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 Nepal and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bizarre Inc. to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Youth Brigade,
Sister Nancy,
Black Pus,
Newcleus,
Los Fastidios,
Severed Heads,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sixth Finger,
The Searchers,
Bobby Womack,
X-101,
Tomorrow,
Kerri Chandler,
Second Layer,
Infiniti,
Joy Division,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Human League,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pylon,
L. Decosne,
Eddi Front,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Funky Four + One,
Supertramp,
Wings,
Deakin,
Iggy Pop,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul II Soul,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grey Daturas,
Average White Band,
Jandek,
Porter Ricks,
Erasure,
The Young Rascals,
The Buckinghams,
Neil Young,
Joyce Sims,
Letta Mbulu,
Sam Rivers,
Joe Finger,
The Grass Roots,
The Fortunes,
The Real Kids,
Kurtis Blow,
Sällskapet,
The Gories,
Maleditus Sound,
Hashim,
David Bowie,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Last Poets,
Moby Grape,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zapp,
The Martian,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.