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 Palau and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Davy DMX to the electroclash 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and an oboe 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 a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
A Flock of Seagulls,
Au Pairs,
Todd Terry,
AZ,
Wolf Eyes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ludus,
Easy Going,
the Swans,
Nirvana,
Lower 48,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yazoo,
The Cramps,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grauzone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amon Düül II,
Scrapy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sugar Minott,
The Litter,
Soul Sonic Force,
Darondo,
Alton Ellis,
The Moleskins,
Amazonics,
X-Ray Spex,
Saccharine Trust,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sam Rivers,
Arab on Radar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Sonics,
Loose Ends,
Barrington Levy,
Skarface,
The Invisible,
Yellowson,
Anthony Braxton,
The Fugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Spoonie Gee,
Maurizio,
Judy Mowatt,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eurythmics,
Desert Stars,
Tres Demented,
Agitation Free,
Gabor Szabo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lou Reed,
Roy Ayers,
Television Personalities,
Motorama,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rotary Connection,
Quadrant,
The Zeros,
Drive Like Jehu,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.