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 Macedonia and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bluetip 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Saccharine Trust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mad Mike,
The Techniques,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dennis Brown,
Kerri Chandler,
Amon Düül,
Supertramp,
Ronnie Foster,
The Walker Brothers,
Bobby Byrd,
E-Dancer,
Little Man,
Alice Coltrane,
Fugazi,
Jandek,
D'Angelo,
Drexciya,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brass Construction,
Henry Cow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Don Cherry,
Y Pants,
Wolf Eyes,
Dawn Penn,
Pagans,
One Last Wish,
The Raincoats,
Jeru the Damaja,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lindisfarne,
Gong,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ten City,
The Standells,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Make Up,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Unwound,
This Heat,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minor Threat,
Hasil Adkins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alison Limerick,
Jacques Brel,
The Modern Lovers,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.