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 Tuvalu and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the rock 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Animal Collective,
Henry Cow,
The Durutti Column,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jacques Brel,
Shuggie Otis,
Dual Sessions,
KRS-One,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Toasters,
The Young Rascals,
Shoche,
Darondo,
Fad Gadget,
Deadbeat,
Rosa Yemen,
Silicon Teens,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Move,
Letta Mbulu,
the Germs,
The Walker Brothers,
Leonard Cohen,
Oneida,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sandy B,
Gabor Szabo,
Aural Exciters,
UT,
Yazoo,
The Angels of Light,
Y Pants,
F. McDonald,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Monks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Unrelated Segments,
Terry Callier,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kerri Chandler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Fugs,
A Certain Ratio,
Ken Boothe,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Sheep,
Sound Behaviour,
Pylon,
Cluster,
Icehouse,
Gang of Four,
Ponytail,
Flash Fearless,
The Wake,
kango's stein massive,
Outsiders,
Michelle Simonal,
Thompson Twins,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.