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 Nauru and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar 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 Severed Heads to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Neil Young,
The Kinks,
Idris Muhammad,
The Music Machine,
D'Angelo,
David McCallum,
The Fall,
Tubeway Army,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Associates,
Nik Kershaw,
The Residents,
Make Up,
Erasure,
The Cowsills,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jacob Miller,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Throbbing Gristle,
Colin Newman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
One Last Wish,
Alphaville,
Pere Ubu,
The Mojo Men,
The Leaves,
Sugar Minott,
The Gun Club,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Delta 5,
The Litter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Avey Tare,
Minor Threat,
Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-Ray Spex,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Chris Corsano,
Unrelated Segments,
World's Most,
Wasted Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
a-ha,
Lungfish,
Crime,
Symarip,
Liliput,
Electric Prunes,
Das Ding,
Royal Trux,
Quadrant,
Los Fastidios,
10cc,
Flash Fearless,
Kerri Chandler,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arab on Radar,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.