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 Slovakia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Pole to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Hashim,
Jawbox,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
H. Thieme,
UT,
Gang Gang Dance,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Techniques,
The Sound,
The Invisible,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ludus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gories,
New Order,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pantytec,
Suicide,
Pulsallama,
Model 500,
Crispian St. Peters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roxy Music,
PIL,
Lou Reed,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Gang Green,
Bush Tetras,
Livin' Joy,
Spoonie Gee,
The Motions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Martian,
Tommy Roe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stereo Dub,
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Görl,
Ultravox,
Ralphi Rosario,
Reagan Youth,
Section 25,
Procol Harum,
Unwound,
Liliput,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Duran Duran,
The Slackers,
The Fire Engines,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Infiniti,
Supertramp,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Searchers,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.