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 Moldova and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 DNA to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Hashim,
Ultra Naté,
Jandek,
Laurel Aitken,
Yellowson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Maurizio,
Erykah Badu,
Sun City Girls,
Khruangbin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Simply Red,
Eddi Front,
The Blues Magoos,
Gang Starr,
The Count Five,
Minor Threat,
Gregory Isaacs,
Franke,
La Düsseldorf,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Angels of Light,
X-102,
Essential Logic,
Easy Going,
Vladislav Delay,
Freddie Wadling,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Symarip,
Ituana,
Banda Bassotti,
Agitation Free,
The Saints,
Deepchord,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Maleditus Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Aswad,
The Gap Band,
Blancmange,
Pylon,
Arab on Radar,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Black Dice,
Kerrie Biddell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Residents,
Hot Snakes,
Talk Talk,
The Gladiators,
Deakin,
The Smoke,
The Last Poets,
Flash Fearless,
The Slits,
Drexciya,
Kerri Chandler,
UT,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.