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 Japan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Johannesburg.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Unrelated Segments to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Ronan,
Dennis Brown,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cure,
the Sonics,
Joey Negro,
The Litter,
Aloha Tigers,
Scan 7,
Groovy Waters,
The Count Five,
Quadrant,
The Slits,
The Mojo Men,
DJ Style,
Technova,
8 Eyed Spy,
Agent Orange,
Camouflage,
DNA,
UT,
Suburban Knight,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Subhumans,
Delta 5,
T.S.O.L.,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Leaves,
Suicide,
Can,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Motorama,
Buzzcocks,
Peter & Gordon,
DJ Sneak,
Reagan Youth,
Rites of Spring,
Hoover,
MDC,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Starr,
Massinfluence,
The Gap Band,
Minny Pops,
In Retrospect,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tears for Fears,
Smog,
Joe Smooth,
Kayak,
Procol Harum,
Reuben Wilson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-102,
Sister Nancy,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.