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 Hungary and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the rap 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Unrelated Segments,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Electric Prunes,
The Gladiators,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Victims,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lou Reed,
Scott Walker,
Monks,
Negative Approach,
48th St. Collective,
Sandy B,
The Dave Clark Five,
Faust,
The Stooges,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun Ra,
Hasil Adkins,
Stereo Dub,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris Corsano,
Rakim,
B.T. Express,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minor Threat,
Radio Birdman,
The Evens,
Stiv Bators,
Q and Not U,
Second Layer,
Eden Ahbez,
The Moody Blues,
Radiohead,
The Doobie Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Liliput,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agitation Free,
Interpol,
Kas Product,
Shoche,
Glenn Branca,
Terry Callier,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Barbara Tucker,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott Heron,
Magazine,
The Vogues,
The Sound,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Neon Judgement,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.