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 Maldives and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Andrew Hill to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Todd Rundgren,
Alison Limerick,
Ten City,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Archie Shepp,
Basic Channel,
Rufus Thomas,
Siglo XX,
the Fania All-Stars,
Magazine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dawn Penn,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Donny Hathaway,
The Smiths,
Stockholm Monsters,
Schoolly D,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ohio Players,
Cal Tjader,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mars,
James White and The Blacks,
Visage,
The Index,
Index,
JFA,
Alphaville,
Funkadelic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deakin,
This Heat,
DJ Style,
Charles Mingus,
Skriet,
Hardrive,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Sheep,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Raincoats,
Erykah Badu,
Intrusion,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tubeway Army,
The Dirtbombs,
F. McDonald,
Neil Young,
Whodini,
Sun Ra,
The New Christs,
Bobby Sherman,
Maurizio,
the Association,
Joe Finger,
Mission of Burma,
Colin Newman,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.