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 Ireland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Inner City,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
Cluster,
The Barracudas,
Tommy Roe,
Jandek,
Quantec,
The Busters,
H. Thieme,
Harry Pussy,
The Victims,
UT,
Heaven 17,
MDC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dave Gahan,
The Saints,
Little Man,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobby Womack,
Sonny Sharrock,
Max Romeo,
Eric Dolphy,
Ronnie Foster,
The Velvet Underground,
Das Ding,
Urselle,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cecil Taylor,
Absolute Body Control,
Sonic Youth,
June Days,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kaleidoscope,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Searchers,
Index,
The Smiths,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Chris Corsano,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Organ,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pussy Galore,
the Association,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Seeds,
Trumans Water,
Whodini,
Electric Prunes,
Bang On A Can,
Slave,
New York Dolls,
Los Fastidios,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.