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 Dominica and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 World's Most to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flamin' Groovies,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fad Gadget,
Bootsy Collins,
Bobby Sherman,
Adolescents,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Man Parrish,
John Coltrane,
UT,
Skarface,
Guru Guru,
Main Source,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joensuu 1685,
Amazonics,
Slick Rick,
Tubeway Army,
Rapeman,
Chris & Cosey,
Tropical Tobacco,
Andrew Hill,
Jimmy McGriff,
Metal Thangz,
Mantronix,
Qualms,
The Fortunes,
The Electric Prunes,
Dead Boys,
Liliput,
Black Pus,
The Blackbyrds,
Swell Maps,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sparks,
June Days,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fugazi,
Maurizio,
Oblivians,
ABBA,
Radiohead,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gichy Dan,
Todd Rundgren,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun City Girls,
Bluetip,
Lee Hazlewood,
Johnny Clarke,
Marc Almond,
Mandrill,
The Buckinghams,
Scion,
Black Bananas,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.