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 Portugal and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Jacob Miller to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minny Pops,
Crime,
Ronan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
Au Pairs,
Jawbox,
The Buckinghams,
Camouflage,
Saccharine Trust,
The Barracudas,
Shuggie Otis,
These Immortal Souls,
Lightning Bolt,
Blossom Toes,
The Toasters,
Bluetip,
Alison Limerick,
Con Funk Shun,
cv313,
Nirvana,
Cymande,
Brothers Johnson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Suburban Knight,
Parry Music,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Move,
Scion,
Sugar Minott,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
FM Einheit,
48th St. Collective,
Sixth Finger,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sound Behaviour,
Goldenarms,
Monolake,
Yusef Lateef,
Jacob Miller,
R.M.O.,
Soft Cell,
Can,
Japan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Los Fastidios,
Danielle Patucci,
the Swans,
Amazonics,
Bush Tetras,
Pet Shop Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Infiniti,
Fluxion,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.