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 Sierra Leone and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare 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 Kas Product to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Essential Logic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q and Not U,
Jawbox,
Scientists,
Scan 7,
Saccharine Trust,
The Dirtbombs,
Max Romeo,
Metal Thangz,
The Fugs,
Negative Approach,
Prince Buster,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Görl,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Spoonie Gee,
Soulsonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Urselle,
The Cowsills,
Goldenarms,
Skaos,
Silicon Teens,
Funky Four + One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Make Up,
Darondo,
Robert Wyatt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Young Rascals,
Scott Walker,
Thompson Twins,
Scion,
Mission of Burma,
Reagan Youth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bootsy Collins,
Steve Hackett,
Patti Smith,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Panda Bear,
Stiv Bators,
Outsiders,
Gabor Szabo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marine Girls,
Mandrill,
Sixth Finger,
The Gladiators,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Leonard Cohen,
The Dead C,
Pagans,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.