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 Gabon and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Shadows of Knight to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Niagra,
Yellowson,
Supertramp,
The Moody Blues,
Byron Stingily,
Monks,
Rufus Thomas,
Blake Baxter,
Quadrant,
Bauhaus,
Sight & Sound,
L. Decosne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marc Almond,
LL Cool J,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kaleidoscope,
Intrusion,
Joensuu 1685,
Camberwell Now,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oneida,
the Bar-Kays,
AZ,
Au Pairs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ronan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lower 48,
the Sonics,
Public Enemy,
The New Christs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Metal Thangz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
Bill Wells,
a-ha,
Hoover,
David Axelrod,
The Angels of Light,
Aswad,
Soft Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Velvet Underground,
Scrapy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Donny Hathaway,
Sun Ra,
Tubeway Army,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
Darondo,
Archie Shepp,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.