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 Turkey and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Amon Düül II,
Arcadia,
Ice-T,
Roger Hodgson,
Popol Vuh,
Wolf Eyes,
Moss Icon,
The Vogues,
Hardrive,
Mark Hollis,
Vainqueur,
The Blackbyrds,
Niagra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
cv313,
Amazonics,
The Martian,
JFA,
Public Enemy,
Q65,
Skaos,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Leonard Cohen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Depeche Mode,
kango's stein massive,
Iggy Pop,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Severed Heads,
Jawbox,
Nick Fraelich,
Danielle Patucci,
Joyce Sims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eric Dolphy,
OOIOO,
Cecil Taylor,
Quadrant,
The Count Five,
Reagan Youth,
Lou Reed,
Mission of Burma,
Alison Limerick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Carl Craig,
Animal Collective,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sparks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.