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 Angola and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Main Source,
The Remains,
The Gun Club,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lungfish,
Erykah Badu,
The Evens,
The Seeds,
Dual Sessions,
Von Mondo,
Erasure,
Roger Hodgson,
PIL,
Pet Shop Boys,
Supertramp,
Anakelly,
The Cowsills,
The Toasters,
Goldenarms,
Crash Course in Science,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Girls At Our Best!,
Alice Coltrane,
The Leaves,
The Index,
Radio Birdman,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Y Pants,
Ornette Coleman,
Thee Headcoats,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gladiators,
Public Enemy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Glenn Branca,
Nico,
The Names,
Scott Walker,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
MC5,
Jeff Mills,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
cv313,
the Association,
The Busters,
Pere Ubu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Pretty Things,
Stockholm Monsters,
Interpol,
the Normal,
Joyce Sims,
Aloha Tigers,
Pylon,
China Crisis,
Glambeats Corp.,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.