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 Sudan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Animal Collective to the disco 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Alison Limerick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cal Tjader,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
AZ,
Theoretical Girls,
the Swans,
Niagra,
Ultravox,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Erasure,
Dead Boys,
Harpers Bizarre,
Animal Collective,
Gang Starr,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Human League,
The Gun Club,
The Flesh Eaters,
MC5,
Suicide,
T. Rex,
Bush Tetras,
Marvin Gaye,
Avey Tare,
Swans,
Massinfluence,
Skarface,
Babytalk,
Arcadia,
The Buckinghams,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alice Coltrane,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lakeside,
DNA,
Althea and Donna,
Erykah Badu,
London Community Gospel Choir,
ABC,
The Golliwogs,
Interpol,
Amon Düül II,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wally Richardson,
The Selecter,
Letta Mbulu,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fire Engines,
Flipper,
Ken Boothe,
The Young Rascals,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joy Division,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.