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 Mauritania and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fatback Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Teasers,
The Gories,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Clear Light,
Ultravox,
Pantaleimon,
Bill Wells,
Wings,
Groovy Waters,
Pagans,
Khruangbin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Harmonia,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alphaville,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hoover,
FM Einheit,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Ituana,
Fat Boys,
One Last Wish,
Whodini,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Blackbyrds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Section 25,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Angels of Light,
Sex Pistols,
Neil Young,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultra Naté,
Moss Icon,
Public Enemy,
Smog,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alton Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
Livin' Joy,
The Gun Club,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
F. McDonald,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Zapp,
Essential Logic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Raincoats,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.