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 Mozambique and from Columbus.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Tremeloes,
Gang of Four,
Lightning Bolt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lungfish,
Marvin Gaye,
Depeche Mode,
Lalann,
UT,
The Slits,
The J.B.'s,
Reuben Wilson,
Au Pairs,
Deepchord,
Rites of Spring,
The Last Poets,
Mandrill,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nirvana,
Jeff Lynne,
Kayak,
Jawbox,
John Lydon,
Intrusion,
The Gladiators,
Echospace,
the Association,
The Monochrome Set,
Panda Bear,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crispian St. Peters,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-Ray Spex,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
China Crisis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jacques Brel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dual Sessions,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gil Scott Heron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lalo Schifrin,
Josef K,
Gong,
Neil Young,
Barry Ungar,
a-ha,
Ronan,
the Normal,
Lou Reed,
John Cale,
Pussy Galore,
Livin' Joy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Motorama,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.