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 Romania and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Au Pairs to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
The Motions,
the Slits,
Ken Boothe,
Archie Shepp,
Massinfluence,
Alison Limerick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
EPMD,
Aloha Tigers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Zapp,
Todd Rundgren,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Doors,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donny Hathaway,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
Idris Muhammad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camberwell Now,
Gichy Dan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
MC5,
Scientists,
The Fire Engines,
Letta Mbulu,
Das Ding,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
The Misunderstood,
Marine Girls,
Con Funk Shun,
The Velvet Underground,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Accadde A,
The Mummies,
Connie Case,
E-Dancer,
Subhumans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lakeside,
Essential Logic,
Tres Demented,
Black Sheep,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
David McCallum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Sonics,
These Immortal Souls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Charles Mingus,
The Zeros,
H. Thieme,
The Victims,
Laurel Aitken,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.