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 Swaziland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Sister Nancy,
Roxette,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Todd Rundgren,
Maurizio,
Zero Boys,
Guru Guru,
Joy Division,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Isaac Hayes,
Ten City,
The Monks,
JFA,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Zapp,
Skriet,
Television Personalities,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Moody Blues,
Kool Moe Dee,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
T.S.O.L.,
Wasted Youth,
Pierre Henry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aaron Thompson,
Colin Newman,
Young Marble Giants,
Altered Images,
Das Ding,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Age Steppers,
Youth Brigade,
Arcadia,
Bauhaus,
Unwound,
Matthew Halsall,
Index,
Rosa Yemen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kurtis Blow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Absolute Body Control,
Wally Richardson,
Lalann,
OOIOO,
The Seeds,
Marmalade,
Make Up,
The Busters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Glenn Branca,
Arab on Radar,
ABC,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.