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 Lille.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the jazz 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
David Bowie,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slackers,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Near,
Johnny Clarke,
Blancmange,
ABBA,
In Retrospect,
Terry Callier,
Pantaleimon,
Minor Threat,
kango's stein massive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Warren Ellis,
Black Flag,
Bobby Womack,
Brick,
Glambeats Corp.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Maleditus Sound,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Flash Fearless,
Agent Orange,
The Dirtbombs,
Dark Day,
Harpers Bizarre,
June Days,
Nick Fraelich,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scott Walker,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Last Poets,
Lyres,
Stockholm Monsters,
The New Christs,
Pole,
The Mojo Men,
Flipper,
Minny Pops,
Mad Mike,
B.T. Express,
Skaos,
The Buckinghams,
Eric Dolphy,
Mandrill,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Groovy Waters,
The Tremeloes,
the Sonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ornette Coleman,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.