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 Canada and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro 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 The Smiths to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Byron Stingily,
Trumans Water,
The Evens,
Barbara Tucker,
Dave Gahan,
Harmonia,
Sixth Finger,
Morten Harket,
Essential Logic,
Echospace,
Rapeman,
The Last Poets,
Howard Jones,
Sun Ra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kas Product,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vainqueur,
Brothers Johnson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skaos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Buzzcocks,
Glenn Branca,
Scion,
Anthony Braxton,
Unrelated Segments,
The Martian,
Wings,
The Move,
Lucky Dragons,
Quantec,
Bad Manners,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soul Sonic Force,
Altered Images,
The Angels of Light,
Cymande,
The Remains,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scrapy,
Absolute Body Control,
Joyce Sims,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Metal Thangz,
Erasure,
MC5,
Make Up,
Supertramp,
Roger Hodgson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Starr,
Negative Approach,
Neil Young,
Marshall Jefferson,
Zero Boys,
Delon & Dalcan,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.