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 Maldives and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Radiopuhelimet to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a synthesizer 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 guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Freddie Wadling,
Yusef Lateef,
Adolescents,
China Crisis,
Fad Gadget,
Bootsy Collins,
Roxette,
Terrestrial Tones,
Brick,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
James White and The Blacks,
Average White Band,
Scion,
The Blues Magoos,
Main Source,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Vladislav Delay,
Peter and Kerry,
X-101,
Ornette Coleman,
The Red Krayola,
Echospace,
Dark Day,
The Pretty Things,
Minor Threat,
Index,
Franke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Barracudas,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare,
Procol Harum,
The Techniques,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fall,
The Monks,
Lindisfarne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
OOIOO,
Mr. Review,
The Searchers,
D'Angelo,
The Selecter,
The Birthday Party,
Liliput,
Flamin' Groovies,
Albert Ayler,
the Bar-Kays,
Jandek,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pet Shop Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Absolute Body Control,
The Doors,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultravox,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.