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 Mali and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the punk 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Yaz,
Television,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roy Ayers,
10cc,
Sun Ra,
Ice-T,
Clear Light,
Glambeats Corp.,
Glenn Branca,
Camberwell Now,
Animal Collective,
Rotary Connection,
Rites of Spring,
Faraquet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Anthony Braxton,
Popol Vuh,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mandrill,
The Durutti Column,
Kenny Larkin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Zero Boys,
This Heat,
Moby Grape,
Alison Limerick,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
Television Personalities,
Carl Craig,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amazonics,
Flash Fearless,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Stiv Bators,
The Doors,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Model 500,
Motorama,
Radiohead,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hashim,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lucky Dragons,
Gang Green,
Index,
The Smoke,
Marc Almond,
Sandy B,
Hardrive,
Minny Pops,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Soft Cell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Don Cherry,
Inner City,
Patti Smith,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.