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 Korea South and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Neu! to the techno 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Count Five,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Animal Collective,
Lebanon Hanover,
Byron Stingily,
Reagan Youth,
Dark Day,
Rites of Spring,
The New Christs,
Ice-T,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gabor Szabo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Five Americans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Hardrive,
8 Eyed Spy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fuzztones,
Man Parrish,
Minnie Riperton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roxy Music,
Bronski Beat,
Yusef Lateef,
ABBA,
Lyres,
The Trojans,
Deepchord,
Juan Atkins,
the Association,
Fat Boys,
Vainqueur,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Stooges,
Agitation Free,
Banda Bassotti,
The Young Rascals,
the Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
the Slits,
The Zeros,
Unwound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
ABC,
Brick,
Amon Düül,
The Offenders,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mark Hollis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chris Corsano,
Jeff Lynne,
Tommy Roe,
Deakin,
Ornette Coleman,
Johnny Clarke,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.