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 Iran and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Amon Düül II to the rock 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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Pet Shop Boys,
Excepter,
Minor Threat,
The Human League,
Quadrant,
Pere Ubu,
Infiniti,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Boredoms,
R.M.O.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kas Product,
Jacob Miller,
John Cale,
Scan 7,
Joensuu 1685,
Shuggie Otis,
Q and Not U,
Scrapy,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang Green,
The Dave Clark Five,
Peter & Gordon,
Chris & Cosey,
Groovy Waters,
Clear Light,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Divine Comedy,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slick Rick,
B.T. Express,
Soul II Soul,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Hot Snakes,
The Gladiators,
Maleditus Sound,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Young Marble Giants,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Archie Shepp,
Pylon,
Black Sheep,
Moss Icon,
Michelle Simonal,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dual Sessions,
Robert Hood,
JFA,
Eric Dolphy,
Sight & Sound,
Bob Dylan,
Von Mondo,
Jawbox,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.