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 Dominica and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rosa Yemen to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
U.S. Maple,
Mad Mike,
The Seeds,
Pharoah Sanders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
Jawbox,
Blake Baxter,
Sandy B,
Blancmange,
Crash Course in Science,
Piero Umiliani,
Easy Going,
Dark Day,
Royal Trux,
Panda Bear,
Alphaville,
The Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Raincoats,
Lakeside,
The Slackers,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Swans,
Wally Richardson,
Liliput,
Eden Ahbez,
Zapp,
Fela Kuti,
John Coltrane,
Idris Muhammad,
The Electric Prunes,
Sun Ra,
Jandek,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Robert Görl,
Guru Guru,
Robert Wyatt,
Siglo XX,
Young Marble Giants,
CMW,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dead Boys,
D'Angelo,
Lungfish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joyce Sims,
DNA,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mantronix,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Offenders,
T. Rex,
Aaron Thompson,
Suburban Knight,
Todd Rundgren,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.