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 Turkmenistan and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Audionom to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Pop Group,
Peter & Gordon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Human League,
kango's stein massive,
Sun Ra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rites of Spring,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
JFA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Isaac Hayes,
Roy Ayers,
Michelle Simonal,
Zero Boys,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The American Breed,
Toni Rubio,
Gang Green,
DNA,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sällskapet,
The Trojans,
Swans,
Circle Jerks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Raincoats,
Blossom Toes,
The Count Five,
The Skatalites,
Suicide,
Lucky Dragons,
Jacob Miller,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Sheep,
Grey Daturas,
Von Mondo,
The Gories,
the Sonics,
The Seeds,
the Germs,
Pantytec,
Sight & Sound,
Dorothy Ashby,
PIL,
Piero Umiliani,
Maurizio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Curtis Mayfield,
Oneida,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed,
Black Bananas,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.