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 Fiji and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Godley & Creme to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Byron Stingily,
Terry Callier,
The Five Americans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
James White and The Blacks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls,
Procol Harum,
Lou Christie,
Ponytail,
Warren Ellis,
Nico,
Quando Quango,
Vladislav Delay,
Model 500,
The Grass Roots,
Pylon,
Agitation Free,
Amazonics,
Dennis Brown,
Cameo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Smoke,
UT,
Wasted Youth,
Excepter,
Eddi Front,
Brass Construction,
Essential Logic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dead Boys,
Davy DMX,
The Velvet Underground,
Laurel Aitken,
Bill Wells,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Black Dice,
Roxy Music,
Roxette,
Tommy Roe,
Barbara Tucker,
Lou Reed,
Saccharine Trust,
Ossler,
Royal Trux,
Bobby Byrd,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Maleditus Sound,
Heaven 17,
Neu!,
Fear,
The J.B.'s,
The Moody Blues,
In Retrospect,
June Days,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.