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 Slovakia and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum 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 kango's stein massive to the electroclash 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Babytalk,
Marvin Gaye,
Stereo Dub,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Basic Channel,
Tres Demented,
Frankie Knuckles,
Josef K,
The Zeros,
Michelle Simonal,
Terry Callier,
Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hoover,
Stockholm Monsters,
Drexciya,
CMW,
World's Most,
The Fugs,
the Germs,
the Slits,
Khruangbin,
Stetsasonic,
T. Rex,
Donald Byrd,
Jandek,
Vladislav Delay,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Gong,
Jerry Gold Smith,
PIL,
Talk Talk,
Blake Baxter,
Funkadelic,
Jeff Mills,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sugar Minott,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Music Machine,
the Fania All-Stars,
Althea and Donna,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Smog,
Black Sheep,
Liliput,
Ohio Players,
Roy Ayers,
Monolake,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skaos,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Bananas,
The Dead C,
Flash Fearless,
Mantronix,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.