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 the UAE and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Toasters to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '80s 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 Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
The Buckinghams,
The Invisible,
Qualms,
Organ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Count Five,
The Fall,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Joyce Sims,
A Certain Ratio,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eden Ahbez,
The Blackbyrds,
Howard Jones,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric B and Rakim,
June Days,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quantec,
China Crisis,
Neu!,
Mantronix,
John Cale,
Jeff Lynne,
Warren Ellis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Henry Cow,
Yellowson,
Man Parrish,
Joy Division,
Malaria!,
Gang Starr,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gladiators,
Bill Near,
Delta 5,
Ronan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lindisfarne,
The Stooges,
Animal Collective,
Ultra Naté,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grey Daturas,
T.S.O.L.,
Zapp,
Hoover,
The Wake,
New Age Steppers,
Newcleus,
Infiniti,
The Motions,
Rekid,
Ten City,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
Arcadia,
Dead Boys,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.