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 Taiwan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Outsiders to the electroclash 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Desert Stars,
Tubeway Army,
Urselle,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DNA,
Nas,
The Dead C,
Gabor Szabo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Von Mondo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Danielle Patucci,
Bootsy Collins,
Babytalk,
Lalann,
Sonny Sharrock,
Big Daddy Kane,
Country Teasers,
The Selecter,
Faust,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Copeland,
Man Parrish,
Camberwell Now,
Radio Birdman,
Easy Going,
Parry Music,
Deepchord,
Todd Terry,
Isaac Hayes,
Dave Gahan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Sonics,
Hot Snakes,
Kayak,
Black Sheep,
Zapp,
Mission of Burma,
Erykah Badu,
Tres Demented,
The Skatalites,
Sparks,
Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
Television,
Anakelly,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare,
The Fuzztones,
Surgeon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Howard Jones,
Second Layer,
Laurel Aitken,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.