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 Ecuador and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
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 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 Lou Reed 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
Brand Nubian,
Franke,
Los Fastidios,
the Swans,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
Kurtis Blow,
Grey Daturas,
Yellowson,
The Mojo Men,
Aural Exciters,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Black Dice,
Yazoo,
Anthony Braxton,
Eric Dolphy,
Michelle Simonal,
The Divine Comedy,
Nico,
The Last Poets,
Neil Young,
Roxy Music,
Derrick Morgan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minny Pops,
Black Bananas,
Simply Red,
Pantaleimon,
The Vogues,
Piero Umiliani,
Chris Corsano,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fire Engines,
The Grass Roots,
Lucky Dragons,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Reuben Wilson,
Monolake,
Pulsallama,
Desert Stars,
Livin' Joy,
The Smoke,
E-Dancer,
Man Parrish,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eden Ahbez,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeru the Damaja,
Heaven 17,
Suburban Knight,
Robert Wyatt,
Judy Mowatt,
Soft Machine,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Model 500,
T.S.O.L.,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.