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 Madagascar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ 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 Symarip to the electroclash 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crime,
Echospace,
10cc,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Busters,
Bootsy Collins,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gap Band,
Scratch Acid,
Brass Construction,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jerry's Kids,
The Grass Roots,
Porter Ricks,
Cecil Taylor,
DJ Sneak,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soul II Soul,
Oblivians,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlback,
Von Mondo,
The Birthday Party,
Susan Cadogan,
Average White Band,
Lalann,
Television,
The Fugs,
Dark Day,
Easy Going,
Magma,
Cal Tjader,
Agitation Free,
Scan 7,
the Sonics,
D'Angelo,
Marmalade,
Television Personalities,
Faraquet,
Tommy Roe,
Matthew Bourne,
CMW,
Danielle Patucci,
Surgeon,
the Association,
Cameo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Toasters,
The Martian,
Schoolly D,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Victims,
Graham Central Station,
Angry Samoans,
Rufus Thomas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rotary Connection,
Boredoms,
Shoche,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.