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 Poland and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Simply Red to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Bananas,
David Axelrod,
Half Japanese,
The Young Rascals,
Magma,
Jandek,
Babytalk,
The Black Dice,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eve St. Jones,
Fluxion,
James White and The Blacks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cecil Taylor,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cramps,
Max Romeo,
Fear,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barbara Tucker,
The Monks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Q65,
Todd Rundgren,
Minny Pops,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ornette Coleman,
Kayak,
ABBA,
DNA,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Laurel Aitken,
Pussy Galore,
Skriet,
Tres Demented,
Moebius,
Tubeway Army,
Surgeon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Cluster,
Marmalade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Wyatt,
Ronan,
Lou Christie,
Nico,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brick,
Scrapy,
Ituana,
Ronnie Foster,
Youth Brigade,
48th St. Collective,
Scientists,
AZ,
The Skatalites,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.