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 Czech Republic and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the punk 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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Scrapy,
Faraquet,
The Busters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
FM Einheit,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
The Human League,
Fatback Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Drexciya,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crime,
Rites of Spring,
Bill Near,
Supertramp,
Rod Modell,
48th St. Collective,
Gang Green,
Quadrant,
the Swans,
Wally Richardson,
Joensuu 1685,
Von Mondo,
The Smoke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Television,
Roxette,
Moebius,
The Skatalites,
Cybotron,
Can,
The Searchers,
Radiohead,
The Count Five,
Blossom Toes,
Chrome,
Section 25,
Grauzone,
Au Pairs,
Warsaw,
Ralphi Rosario,
Faust,
Magazine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Byrd,
La Düsseldorf,
Q65,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Donny Hathaway,
Camberwell Now,
The Moody Blues,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Donald Byrd,
Inner City,
Ken Boothe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.