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 Palau and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sparks to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Cluster,
Ronan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Sheep,
The Offenders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The American Breed,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Throbbing Gristle,
Crime,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joensuu 1685,
ABBA,
Drexciya,
Eden Ahbez,
Adolescents,
Pulsallama,
F. McDonald,
Rotary Connection,
The Invisible,
Derrick May,
The Victims,
Andrew Hill,
Curtis Mayfield,
Underground Resistance,
Qualms,
Section 25,
Saccharine Trust,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Byrd,
Motorama,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Faraquet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Supertramp,
The Young Rascals,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echospace,
Barbara Tucker,
Silicon Teens,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Q and Not U,
Rakim,
Moss Icon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erasure,
Ultra Naté,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
Sarah Menescal,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angry Samoans,
Public Enemy,
Piero Umiliani,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.