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 Rwanda and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin 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 Easy Going to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare 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 rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Moon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Basic Channel,
Roger Hodgson,
Andrew Hill,
Ornette Coleman,
Rotary Connection,
Gang of Four,
Dead Boys,
Qualms,
Sound Behaviour,
Amon Düül,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jeff Mills,
Accadde A,
Simply Red,
Howard Jones,
Bad Manners,
Marc Almond,
Rhythm & Sound,
Echospace,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Sun Ra,
Lou Christie,
Can,
Unrelated Segments,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Swans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alphaville,
The Moody Blues,
Ohio Players,
Zero Boys,
Wally Richardson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Suburban Knight,
Ponytail,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Cowsills,
Oblivians,
Camouflage,
The Monochrome Set,
Susan Cadogan,
Shoche,
Camberwell Now,
Joy Division,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Durutti Column,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smiths,
The Sonics,
Lower 48,
Agitation Free,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.