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 Barbados and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pantaleimon to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Au Pairs,
David McCallum,
Warren Ellis,
Scratch Acid,
AZ,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Skatalites,
John Foxx,
Delon & Dalcan,
Aloha Tigers,
Funkadelic,
The Doors,
Tomorrow,
L. Decosne,
MDC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Christie,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gap Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Buckinghams,
Popol Vuh,
Deakin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Donny Hathaway,
Pulsallama,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
UT,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Happenings,
Scientists,
Franke,
Electric Prunes,
Can,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marvin Gaye,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Junior Murvin,
Metal Thangz,
The Smoke,
Swell Maps,
Crooked Eye,
June Days,
Khruangbin,
Malaria!,
John Cale,
Vladislav Delay,
The Human League,
Colin Newman,
James White and The Blacks,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Parrish,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Average White Band,
Bill Near,
Eurythmics,
The Gun Club,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.