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 Liechtenstein and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultimate Spinach to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Eric Copeland,
Minor Threat,
Make Up,
Maurizio,
Warren Ellis,
Lakeside,
Outsiders,
The Fuzztones,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scientists,
Eric B and Rakim,
David Axelrod,
Crime,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sarah Menescal,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barrington Levy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Zero Boys,
Derrick May,
Warsaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Inner City,
Blancmange,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hot Snakes,
Cymande,
Amon Düül II,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scan 7,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Busters,
Metal Thangz,
Talk Talk,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Slick Rick,
Dawn Penn,
Johnny Osbourne,
Erykah Badu,
the Sonics,
Niagra,
Flash Fearless,
The Saints,
Animal Collective,
Fad Gadget,
Archie Shepp,
E-Dancer,
Neil Young,
Robert Wyatt,
The Sonics,
The Standells,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Subhumans,
Pierre Henry,
Livin' Joy,
Marmalade,
The J.B.'s,
Q65,
Cal Tjader,
The Seeds,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.