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 Ireland and from Bremen.
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 Edmonton and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fad Gadget to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joey Negro,
The Cure,
Cameo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scratch Acid,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alphaville,
Ten City,
John Coltrane,
Sam Rivers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soft Machine,
The Trojans,
Quadrant,
DJ Sneak,
New Age Steppers,
Das Ding,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lungfish,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Terry,
the Germs,
Bobby Byrd,
Bootsy Collins,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Audionom,
Eric Dolphy,
Absolute Body Control,
Warren Ellis,
Tommy Roe,
Cluster,
Pere Ubu,
Archie Shepp,
A Certain Ratio,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nirvana,
The Evens,
The Count Five,
Neil Young,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wings,
The Gladiators,
Malaria!,
Deepchord,
Ohio Players,
X-Ray Spex,
Flipper,
The Angels of Light,
Jerry's Kids,
The Offenders,
The Tremeloes,
The Seeds,
The Associates,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eli Mardock,
Bobby Womack,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.