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 Korea South and from Portland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Eden Ahbez to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fortunes,
Wolf Eyes,
Talk Talk,
the Human League,
The Fuzztones,
The Associates,
Joensuu 1685,
The Count Five,
Y Pants,
Henry Cow,
Yazoo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Davy DMX,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantaleimon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
AZ,
The Birthday Party,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Charles Mingus,
Suburban Knight,
Sun City Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Hasil Adkins,
Jandek,
Eli Mardock,
Magazine,
Royal Trux,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Accadde A,
Derrick Morgan,
Oneida,
Neil Young,
The Wake,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fluxion,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
MDC,
the Normal,
Amazonics,
Intrusion,
Bob Dylan,
Sandy B,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Germs,
The Dirtbombs,
Electric Prunes,
Rod Modell,
Sällskapet,
The Smoke,
FM Einheit,
June Days,
June of 44,
Zapp,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.