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 Slovakia and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Young Marble Giants,
David Bowie,
The Smoke,
Sun Ra,
Deakin,
Grauzone,
Bobby Womack,
Depeche Mode,
Joe Finger,
Country Teasers,
X-101,
Nik Kershaw,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Section 25,
Alison Limerick,
Pere Ubu,
Television Personalities,
Animal Collective,
Agitation Free,
Funkadelic,
Davy DMX,
Technova,
Hot Snakes,
The Grass Roots,
Kenny Larkin,
The Remains,
Soft Cell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thompson Twins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
Guru Guru,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Little Man,
Amazonics,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Main Source,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
New Order,
Soft Machine,
The Buckinghams,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Monks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Mummies,
Hardrive,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.