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 China and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Niagra 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Chrome,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fatback Band,
Soft Machine,
CMW,
Judy Mowatt,
Grey Daturas,
Soulsonic Force,
The Black Dice,
Rotary Connection,
The Victims,
John Coltrane,
Davy DMX,
Don Cherry,
The Raincoats,
Vladislav Delay,
The Slackers,
The Zeros,
Minutemen,
Brass Construction,
Pantytec,
Stereo Dub,
Rites of Spring,
Danielle Patucci,
A Certain Ratio,
Hardrive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Magma,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Eurythmics,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Traffic Nightmare,
Schoolly D,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Janne Schatter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scion,
Vainqueur,
Simply Red,
Bronski Beat,
Lungfish,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sun Ra,
The Golliwogs,
Agent Orange,
Minnie Riperton,
Archie Shepp,
KRS-One,
Essential Logic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quadrant,
Japan,
The Wake,
Bobby Womack,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.