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 Fiji and from London.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Janne Schatter to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wire,
One Last Wish,
Anthony Braxton,
Erasure,
Camouflage,
David Axelrod,
Curtis Mayfield,
Motorama,
Harpers Bizarre,
Throbbing Gristle,
Amon Düül,
the Germs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Guru Guru,
Au Pairs,
Negative Approach,
Depeche Mode,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cramps,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Martian,
Lower 48,
The Motions,
Fear,
Ituana,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Subhumans,
Aloha Tigers,
Albert Ayler,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Blues Magoos,
Derrick Morgan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Pus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mad Mike,
The United States of America,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxette,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gap Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Freddie Wadling,
The Evens,
Ten City,
The Tremeloes,
Magazine,
Icehouse,
Matthew Halsall,
H. Thieme,
Lee Hazlewood,
Radiohead,
The New Christs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Babytalk,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.