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 Armenia and from Tokyo.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Prince Buster to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Audionom,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Knickerbockers,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scott Walker,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dead Boys,
Newcleus,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Red Krayola,
Lebanon Hanover,
Average White Band,
PIL,
Bill Wells,
Ponytail,
The Gories,
CMW,
Deepchord,
Procol Harum,
UT,
Steve Hackett,
Quando Quango,
The Residents,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lower 48,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pylon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Masters at Work,
Von Mondo,
Banda Bassotti,
Andrew Hill,
Half Japanese,
Scratch Acid,
Lyres,
Erykah Badu,
The Stooges,
Slick Rick,
Easy Going,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moby Grape,
Zero Boys,
Zapp,
X-101,
The Walker Brothers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Pretty Things,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Judy Mowatt,
Pierre Henry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Yellowson,
Wire,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kaleidoscope,
Derrick May,
Arab on Radar,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.