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 Finland and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Hoover to the jazz 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Byron Stingily,
Carl Craig,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Young Marble Giants,
Swell Maps,
The Doors,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gap Band,
Blancmange,
The Toasters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gong,
In Retrospect,
Minor Threat,
Godley & Creme,
Cheater Slicks,
The Buckinghams,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Index,
Alton Ellis,
Gang of Four,
Fatback Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skriet,
Chris & Cosey,
The Busters,
Funky Four + One,
Ultravox,
Loose Ends,
the Association,
The Techniques,
Barry Ungar,
The Star Department,
Masters at Work,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Symarip,
The Offenders,
Gil Scott Heron,
Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eurythmics,
H. Thieme,
The Saints,
Arab on Radar,
Fad Gadget,
Neil Young,
Country Teasers,
cv313,
Stereo Dub,
Bad Manners,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eric Dolphy,
Talk Talk,
ABC,
Minutemen,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Womack,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.