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 Swaziland and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Donald Fagen 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Arcadia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bang On A Can,
Motorama,
Pole,
The Pop Group,
Jawbox,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Iggy Pop,
Guru Guru,
The Cowsills,
Model 500,
The Star Department,
Brick,
Yazoo,
Dawn Penn,
Neu!,
The Gun Club,
John Holt,
Faraquet,
Aural Exciters,
Josef K,
Colin Newman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Gang Dance,
Saccharine Trust,
Bobby Byrd,
The Moody Blues,
Jerry's Kids,
Nas,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Motions,
X-102,
Skaos,
Moby Grape,
Section 25,
Dennis Brown,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Divine Comedy,
This Heat,
Throbbing Gristle,
Donald Byrd,
Quadrant,
the Swans,
Hoover,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alton Ellis,
Archie Shepp,
Wally Richardson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Maurizio,
Sandy B,
B.T. Express,
The Seeds,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Magma,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.