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 Malta and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Organ to the rap 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Absolute Body Control,
The Vogues,
Aloha Tigers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ronan,
Electric Prunes,
Accadde A,
Mary Jane Girls,
Radiohead,
Procol Harum,
Jawbox,
Camberwell Now,
Little Man,
Quantec,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delon & Dalcan,
Con Funk Shun,
AZ,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Seeds,
kango's stein massive,
Aural Exciters,
Alison Limerick,
Magma,
Agitation Free,
Jandek,
The Monochrome Set,
Eddi Front,
Ultravox,
The Misunderstood,
Marc Almond,
Joey Negro,
Y Pants,
Japan,
Hasil Adkins,
Charles Mingus,
The Mummies,
Wire,
Massinfluence,
The Standells,
Mandrill,
Khruangbin,
Depeche Mode,
Tomorrow,
Audionom,
Soft Cell,
Nick Fraelich,
Sonny Sharrock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Prince Buster,
David Axelrod,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Sonics,
Dead Boys,
Robert Görl,
Drexciya,
Scrapy,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.