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 Micronesia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soulsonic Force to the grunge 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Gregory Isaacs,
Graham Central Station,
Niagra,
F. McDonald,
Joyce Sims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Arab on Radar,
Mad Mike,
One Last Wish,
The United States of America,
The Vogues,
Intrusion,
Echospace,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Goldenarms,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter and Kerry,
Surgeon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Althea and Donna,
Kas Product,
This Heat,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Bar-Kays,
Ultimate Spinach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Trojans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Motorama,
Morten Harket,
Lee Hazlewood,
Negative Approach,
Animal Collective,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Detroit Cobras,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Pus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Robert Hood,
Ultravox,
Kerri Chandler,
10cc,
Sam Rivers,
Urselle,
Don Cherry,
Excepter,
Von Mondo,
Alice Coltrane,
The Mojo Men,
Make Up,
X-102,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.