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 Vietnam and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 DJ Style to the electroclash 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Real Kids,
Dual Sessions,
World's Most,
Franke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Moody Blues,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Brick,
Drexciya,
Fear,
Nas,
Moby Grape,
The Blues Magoos,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Copeland,
the Soft Cell,
Darondo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Angry Samoans,
Archie Shepp,
UT,
Toni Rubio,
MDC,
Hoover,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Kinks,
Clear Light,
New Age Steppers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cal Tjader,
Flash Fearless,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
ABBA,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
The Slits,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Barracudas,
The Selecter,
Ultravox,
Fluxion,
Piero Umiliani,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Basic Channel,
Dennis Brown,
Quadrant,
F. McDonald,
Little Man,
These Immortal Souls,
Magma,
The Toasters,
Soulsonic Force,
Vainqueur,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Near,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dave Gahan,
K-Klass,
The Fire Engines,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.