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 Madagascar and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lou Reed to the electroclash 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Panda Bear,
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Little Man,
Los Fastidios,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ponytail,
Echospace,
Organ,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ludus,
Ossler,
Mantronix,
Soft Cell,
Au Pairs,
China Crisis,
Technova,
Eve St. Jones,
Roy Ayers,
Darondo,
Jerry's Kids,
Brick,
John Cale,
DJ Sneak,
Severed Heads,
Q and Not U,
The Detroit Cobras,
Basic Channel,
Quando Quango,
David Bowie,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kayak,
Jandek,
The Litter,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pantytec,
Niagra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tres Demented,
Joensuu 1685,
Mo-Dettes,
Thee Headcoats,
Donny Hathaway,
Frankie Knuckles,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Charles Mingus,
Aswad,
The Walker Brothers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nico,
The American Breed,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.