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 Togo and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Warren Ellis to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
E-Dancer,
Little Man,
Zapp,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Vladislav Delay,
Neu!,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boz Scaggs,
Thompson Twins,
Talk Talk,
Gregory Isaacs,
Aloha Tigers,
Howard Jones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxy Music,
The Tremeloes,
Hashim,
Swell Maps,
Chris Corsano,
The Sonics,
Jeru the Damaja,
Section 25,
Ituana,
Sarah Menescal,
Scott Walker,
The Fire Engines,
Sällskapet,
Supertramp,
Nas,
Brass Construction,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
Joe Finger,
Joey Negro,
JFA,
DJ Sneak,
FM Einheit,
Altered Images,
Boredoms,
Drexciya,
X-102,
Lower 48,
Easy Going,
Jacob Miller,
Masters at Work,
Sun City Girls,
Ornette Coleman,
Grey Daturas,
Gong,
Lalann,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Spandau Ballet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deakin,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Young Rascals,
Amazonics,
The Golliwogs,
Arthur Verocai,
Kurtis Blow,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.