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 Mauritius and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 harpsichord 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 Echospace to the punk 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Au Pairs,
Jeff Mills,
Cluster,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jerry's Kids,
Scientists,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pylon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Average White Band,
Blossom Toes,
Heaven 17,
Iggy Pop,
Niagra,
Soft Machine,
Audionom,
R.M.O.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Model 500,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quantec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Little Man,
Mr. Review,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lindisfarne,
Anthony Braxton,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dead Boys,
Index,
Davy DMX,
Liliput,
Organ,
Eli Mardock,
Darondo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Saints,
Babytalk,
Outsiders,
Neu!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sound,
Charles Mingus,
Kenny Larkin,
ABBA,
The Vogues,
Gastr Del Sol,
The J.B.'s,
Ultravox,
Simply Red,
Stetsasonic,
In Retrospect,
Althea and Donna,
Aaron Thompson,
Slave,
Joyce Sims,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.