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 Ukraine and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 David Bowie 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 D'Angelo to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Idris Muhammad,
Lungfish,
Joensuu 1685,
Moss Icon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skarface,
New York Dolls,
The Slits,
Urselle,
Oneida,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minor Threat,
The Standells,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sarah Menescal,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Christie,
EPMD,
Aural Exciters,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Residents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Kinks,
L. Decosne,
Neil Young,
Albert Ayler,
Deepchord,
Donny Hathaway,
Juan Atkins,
Arcadia,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
David Bowie,
Warsaw,
The Doobie Brothers,
Y Pants,
The Misunderstood,
The Moody Blues,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rekid,
Terry Callier,
This Heat,
The Techniques,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dave Gahan,
The Tremeloes,
Eurythmics,
B.T. Express,
Ohio Players,
MDC,
The Velvet Underground,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.