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 Poland and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Godley & Creme to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Animal Collective,
Ludus,
Soul Sonic Force,
David Bowie,
Angry Samoans,
Tommy Roe,
Flipper,
Tom Boy,
Rhythm & Sound,
JFA,
Yazoo,
The Velvet Underground,
Amazonics,
Can,
Youth Brigade,
MC5,
Dennis Brown,
Stereo Dub,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Liliput,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Thompson Twins,
D'Angelo,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang of Four,
Mo-Dettes,
Judy Mowatt,
The Young Rascals,
Soft Machine,
The Happenings,
Goldenarms,
Qualms,
Quantec,
Deepchord,
X-102,
Pierre Henry,
Y Pants,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Intrusion,
Stiv Bators,
FM Einheit,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joey Negro,
Cal Tjader,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eden Ahbez,
Negative Approach,
Excepter,
Godley & Creme,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Livin' Joy,
U.S. Maple,
48th St. Collective,
Bush Tetras,
Reagan Youth,
Tres Demented,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.