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 Pakistan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Negative Approach,
Lucky Dragons,
The Young Rascals,
Saccharine Trust,
Sixth Finger,
Sun Ra,
The Sonics,
Wasted Youth,
Minor Threat,
Ultimate Spinach,
One Last Wish,
Sugar Minott,
Agitation Free,
Inner City,
Tomorrow,
Derrick May,
Fugazi,
Zapp,
The Birthday Party,
Johnny Clarke,
The Seeds,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nas,
Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Toni Rubio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Royal Trux,
Tears for Fears,
The Associates,
Roxette,
MDC,
Make Up,
Accadde A,
Jacques Brel,
Funkadelic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grauzone,
Lalann,
Gang Starr,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Near,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sam Rivers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Underground Resistance,
Siglo XX,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
This Heat,
the Soft Cell,
David McCallum,
Schoolly D,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronnie Foster,
Joe Smooth,
Country Teasers,
Circle Jerks,
Scientists,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.