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 Gambia 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Max Romeo to the disco 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nirvana,
Letta Mbulu,
The J.B.'s,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Warsaw,
Yellowson,
ABBA,
Mo-Dettes,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Simply Red,
10cc,
Mission of Burma,
the Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Barry Ungar,
Gastr Del Sol,
Warren Ellis,
Bobby Sherman,
Average White Band,
Pere Ubu,
Kerri Chandler,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Bananas,
Matthew Bourne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kas Product,
Magazine,
The Birthday Party,
Motorama,
Agitation Free,
Ronnie Foster,
the Germs,
Glenn Branca,
The Residents,
Pylon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ronan,
Sugar Minott,
Pantaleimon,
Yusef Lateef,
The Wake,
Blancmange,
The Sound,
The Slackers,
The Standells,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Qualms,
Don Cherry,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fortunes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.