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 Kyrgyzstan and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Bush Tetras to the jazz 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Delta 5,
Flash Fearless,
Deepchord,
Gerry Rafferty,
Average White Band,
New York Dolls,
Mission of Burma,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yellowson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harry Pussy,
Saccharine Trust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pussy Galore,
Joyce Sims,
The Selecter,
The Zeros,
Subhumans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Janne Schatter,
Flipper,
Barbara Tucker,
Smog,
The Angels of Light,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Holt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Hot Snakes,
Wasted Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Bar-Kays,
Drexciya,
Deadbeat,
Vladislav Delay,
Icehouse,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marc Almond,
Au Pairs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yaz,
Moby Grape,
PIL,
Panda Bear,
These Immortal Souls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minnie Riperton,
R.M.O.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Terry Callier,
ABBA,
Derrick Morgan,
Shuggie Otis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bad Manners,
Oblivians,
E-Dancer,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.