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 Spain and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Youth Brigade to the funk 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls 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?
Pantaleimon,
Second Layer,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Star Department,
Reagan Youth,
Radiohead,
JFA,
Maleditus Sound,
Boz Scaggs,
Bob Dylan,
Todd Rundgren,
Panda Bear,
The Young Rascals,
Main Source,
Juan Atkins,
Tropical Tobacco,
Neil Young,
Lalann,
OOIOO,
The Knickerbockers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gabor Szabo,
Soul II Soul,
Roxette,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Quando Quango,
The Walker Brothers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Leaves,
Mo-Dettes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scientists,
Mantronix,
John Holt,
EPMD,
Nas,
Subhumans,
Massinfluence,
Symarip,
the Soft Cell,
The Sound,
The Fuzztones,
The Detroit Cobras,
Khruangbin,
The United States of America,
Urselle,
Fear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Angels of Light,
The Move,
Jerry's Kids,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Slave,
Colin Newman,
The Selecter,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.