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 Bhutan and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Glenn Branca to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bang On A Can,
Guru Guru,
Supertramp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deadbeat,
Parry Music,
Symarip,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sonics,
Wasted Youth,
Babytalk,
Mantronix,
Heaven 17,
Monolake,
The Cowsills,
K-Klass,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DJ Sneak,
John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kayak,
Bobby Womack,
The Moody Blues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rapeman,
Todd Terry,
Ralphi Rosario,
June Days,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ken Boothe,
Eurythmics,
Joe Smooth,
the Bar-Kays,
Intrusion,
The Evens,
Flamin' Groovies,
Todd Rundgren,
The Techniques,
Brass Construction,
Dual Sessions,
Infiniti,
kango's stein massive,
AZ,
Letta Mbulu,
Jeff Mills,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Underground Resistance,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mandrill,
Funky Four + One,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lalo Schifrin,
New Age Steppers,
Cecil Taylor,
Alphaville,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.