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 Nicaragua and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Anthony Braxton to the electroclash 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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Babytalk,
Todd Terry,
The Barracudas,
Pantaleimon,
New Age Steppers,
Rosa Yemen,
Fela Kuti,
LL Cool J,
Animal Collective,
Fear,
Ituana,
Scientists,
Crime,
Jeru the Damaja,
Juan Atkins,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mo-Dettes,
The Busters,
The Modern Lovers,
Young Marble Giants,
Bill Wells,
The Fugs,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
Ludus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tom Boy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
Sonic Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
PIL,
John Holt,
Sam Rivers,
X-101,
Sexual Harrassment,
Arthur Verocai,
Trumans Water,
Kayak,
The Misunderstood,
Y Pants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Faraquet,
Alison Limerick,
The Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
The Invisible,
Pierre Henry,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Detroit Cobras,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Associates,
Lucky Dragons,
Saccharine Trust,
Au Pairs,
the Bar-Kays,
Electric Prunes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Outsiders,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.