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 United States and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes 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 48th St. Collective to the techno 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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Underground Resistance,
Cameo,
Aaron Thompson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Robert Görl,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Section 25,
Gichy Dan,
June of 44,
The Sonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ludus,
Wire,
Scientists,
La Düsseldorf,
Charles Mingus,
Terrestrial Tones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Coltrane,
The Happenings,
Zero Boys,
The Busters,
Cybotron,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonic Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pantytec,
Erasure,
Animal Collective,
Average White Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Excepter,
Moby Grape,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Blancmange,
Agitation Free,
The Fire Engines,
Soul Sonic Force,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kurtis Blow,
Quadrant,
Eric Copeland,
Ituana,
Hardrive,
Laurel Aitken,
Surgeon,
Gang Starr,
The Fuzztones,
The Blues Magoos,
Neil Young,
Quantec,
Inner City,
Idris Muhammad,
Boz Scaggs,
The Residents,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.