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 Singapore and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
The Raincoats,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hashim,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Erykah Badu,
The Sonics,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sister Nancy,
Tubeway Army,
Swell Maps,
Kas Product,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Germs,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dead C,
The Move,
Robert Hood,
Negative Approach,
Fluxion,
Niagra,
Rotary Connection,
The Wake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Birthday Party,
H. Thieme,
The Smoke,
Pole,
The Remains,
Harry Pussy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Buckinghams,
Iggy Pop,
Jeff Lynne,
Sound Behaviour,
Slick Rick,
The Star Department,
Lightning Bolt,
Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Desert Stars,
Skriet,
Fear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
EPMD,
Excepter,
kango's stein massive,
Visage,
Mandrill,
Subhumans,
Second Layer,
Matthew Halsall,
John Holt,
Minnie Riperton,
World's Most,
Faraquet,
Pulsallama,
This Heat,
Zero Boys,
Joe Finger,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.