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 South Africa and from Edmonton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the electroclash 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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Simply Red,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang Green,
Ponytail,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Blancmange,
Fat Boys,
Scrapy,
The Grass Roots,
OOIOO,
Popol Vuh,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boredoms,
Rites of Spring,
Kas Product,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Misunderstood,
Tom Boy,
Essential Logic,
Barbara Tucker,
Slave,
Altered Images,
Soul II Soul,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Henry Cow,
Sam Rivers,
Marvin Gaye,
Glambeats Corp.,
Glenn Branca,
Funkadelic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Monolake,
L. Decosne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Harry Pussy,
Wings,
48th St. Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sonic Youth,
Nils Olav,
Minor Threat,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eric Dolphy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Half Japanese,
Maurizio,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quando Quango,
Althea and Donna,
Scion,
Chris Corsano,
Ronan,
Jacob Miller,
Adolescents,
Isaac Hayes,
Soft Machine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.