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 Woodstock.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Deepchord to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Half Japanese,
The Trojans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sparks,
Ultravox,
Don Cherry,
Unrelated Segments,
Wire,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Sherman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Residents,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camouflage,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fall,
Black Pus,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lungfish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Magma,
Motorama,
Lucky Dragons,
Q and Not U,
The Buckinghams,
Gerry Rafferty,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fear,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Matthew Bourne,
Pantaleimon,
Alton Ellis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jacques Brel,
Max Romeo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Near,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric Dolphy,
The Happenings,
Loose Ends,
The Doobie Brothers,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Malaria!,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mummies,
Sound Behaviour,
The Velvet Underground,
The Skatalites,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mission of Burma,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.