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 Australia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Don Cherry to the techno 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland 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?
Tears for Fears,
Country Teasers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Smog,
Piero Umiliani,
The Zeros,
Theoretical Girls,
Guru Guru,
Underground Resistance,
PIL,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Zero Boys,
The Saints,
The Black Dice,
Quadrant,
Hoover,
Cheater Slicks,
Section 25,
Scan 7,
David Axelrod,
Grandmaster Flash,
Excepter,
Rekid,
Scott Walker,
The Searchers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dual Sessions,
Thompson Twins,
X-Ray Spex,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lower 48,
Reuben Wilson,
Chrome,
The Human League,
Davy DMX,
Tommy Roe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deakin,
Desert Stars,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hot Snakes,
Josef K,
The Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Moebius,
Eric B and Rakim,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy Collins,
The Skatalites,
Youth Brigade,
The Seeds,
The Moody Blues,
The Velvet Underground,
The Walker Brothers,
Ultravox,
Pere Ubu,
Arab on Radar,
The Cowsills,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.