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 Cape Verde and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Max Romeo to the jazz 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Subhumans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bronski Beat,
Boredoms,
MC5,
In Retrospect,
Jawbox,
Fluxion,
Freddie Wadling,
The Barracudas,
The Pop Group,
Underground Resistance,
The Real Kids,
Animal Collective,
The Wake,
Excepter,
Eddi Front,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Sister Nancy,
John Cale,
Joyce Sims,
Black Bananas,
Make Up,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dead Boys,
Scan 7,
the Human League,
Davy DMX,
John Coltrane,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Womack,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Darondo,
Ultravox,
Pantytec,
Goldenarms,
Jesper Dahlback,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Unrelated Segments,
The Doors,
Faust,
Soulsonic Force,
Bluetip,
The Last Poets,
Vainqueur,
Bobby Byrd,
Livin' Joy,
Jacob Miller,
Mars,
Qualms,
Erasure,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eden Ahbez,
Sam Rivers,
Lungfish,
Yellowson,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.