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 Jordan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
cv313,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Young Rascals,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
The Blackbyrds,
Pole,
Gang Green,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sixth Finger,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
F. McDonald,
Fluxion,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joe Smooth,
Sparks,
Main Source,
Bluetip,
K-Klass,
The Gun Club,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Selecter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
a-ha,
Ossler,
Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Underground Resistance,
June of 44,
The Human League,
Adolescents,
D'Angelo,
Ponytail,
The Dirtbombs,
Soul II Soul,
The J.B.'s,
Gang Starr,
EPMD,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
FM Einheit,
Letta Mbulu,
Nico,
Talk Talk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mad Mike,
Don Cherry,
Moby Grape,
Bizarre Inc.,
Boz Scaggs,
Bad Manners,
Young Marble Giants,
The American Breed,
Cluster,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Smoke,
Mantronix,
The Stooges,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lower 48,
10cc,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.