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 Kiribati and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Icehouse to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dead Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Depeche Mode,
Jandek,
Gong,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gabor Szabo,
The Electric Prunes,
Subhumans,
Second Layer,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Glenn Branca,
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra,
Television,
Sarah Menescal,
John Coltrane,
Minutemen,
The Evens,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
These Immortal Souls,
Essential Logic,
Ronnie Foster,
R.M.O.,
Nick Fraelich,
Alison Limerick,
Sexual Harrassment,
Shoche,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Accadde A,
Electric Prunes,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobby Womack,
Michelle Simonal,
Davy DMX,
Donald Byrd,
Gregory Isaacs,
Althea and Donna,
John Holt,
The Litter,
The New Christs,
Smog,
Suburban Knight,
Gang Gang Dance,
New Order,
Thee Headcoats,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Raincoats,
Junior Murvin,
Little Man,
Skarface,
Scott Walker,
Stereo Dub,
Dave Gahan,
Leonard Cohen,
New Age Steppers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Main Source,
Wally Richardson,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Terry,
China Crisis,
Franke,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.