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 Bangladesh and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kaleidoscope to the rock 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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Minutemen,
Maleditus Sound,
The Toasters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris & Cosey,
Chrome,
Bill Wells,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Litter,
Fear,
Quando Quango,
The Kinks,
MDC,
The Associates,
Fela Kuti,
Crispian St. Peters,
Quantec,
Archie Shepp,
DJ Style,
Robert Wyatt,
Dead Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gun Club,
The Doors,
The Slackers,
Sugar Minott,
Kool Moe Dee,
AZ,
Alton Ellis,
Alice Coltrane,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Morten Harket,
Juan Atkins,
Sun City Girls,
Josef K,
Glenn Branca,
The Invisible,
Inner City,
Deadbeat,
the Germs,
Nils Olav,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Busters,
The Grass Roots,
The Star Department,
Motorama,
Skarface,
Easy Going,
The Mummies,
Lou Reed,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bluetip,
Radiohead,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.