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 Panama and from Halifax.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crime to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
FM Einheit,
Minor Threat,
Hasil Adkins,
UT,
The Selecter,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Kinks,
Underground Resistance,
ABBA,
Rites of Spring,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deadbeat,
The Motions,
L. Decosne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bizarre Inc.,
Aaron Thompson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Albert Ayler,
Infiniti,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Livin' Joy,
Mars,
Eve St. Jones,
Radiohead,
Mantronix,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tim Buckley,
Hashim,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Moody Blues,
The Tremeloes,
David Axelrod,
Magma,
Thee Headcoats,
Marmalade,
Crime,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Spoonie Gee,
Von Mondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jacob Miller,
R.M.O.,
Dawn Penn,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Index,
The Knickerbockers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Au Pairs,
X-101,
The Gories,
Bobby Byrd,
The Barracudas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bluetip,
Soulsonic Force,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.