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 Gambia and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Cure to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Standells,
Sun City Girls,
Smog,
Mission of Burma,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Patti Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
H. Thieme,
Los Fastidios,
Main Source,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Stooges,
Rites of Spring,
Kurtis Blow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dark Day,
Amon Düül II,
Siglo XX,
Sandy B,
Fluxion,
Soft Machine,
Amazonics,
Animal Collective,
The Saints,
Intrusion,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wire,
the Bar-Kays,
Davy DMX,
Aaron Thompson,
The Smoke,
The Modern Lovers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
U.S. Maple,
Hashim,
Adolescents,
The Buckinghams,
Fat Boys,
Zero Boys,
The Gladiators,
MC5,
CMW,
Second Layer,
Amon Düül,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Duran Duran,
Spandau Ballet,
Crooked Eye,
Pierre Henry,
Eli Mardock,
The Names,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roger Hodgson,
Sparks,
Derrick Morgan,
Henry Cow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.