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 South Africa and from London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 Lucky Dragons to the disco 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
Minor Threat,
Jacob Miller,
Marcia Griffiths,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Hardrive,
The Five Americans,
Flash Fearless,
Qualms,
The Tremeloes,
Flipper,
The Alarm Clocks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Janne Schatter,
Gang Green,
Neil Young,
Freddie Wadling,
The Toasters,
Spoonie Gee,
Grandmaster Flash,
Accadde A,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lou Reed,
Essential Logic,
Young Marble Giants,
Minutemen,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barry Ungar,
Stereo Dub,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Icehouse,
The Kinks,
Agitation Free,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kaleidoscope,
the Human League,
The Detroit Cobras,
Colin Newman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cameo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Whodini,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Unrelated Segments,
The Offenders,
Cymande,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stiv Bators,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Byron Stingily,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.