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 France and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aloha Tigers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Eli Mardock,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Roxy Music,
Franke,
Bootsy Collins,
Easy Going,
The Slackers,
The Sonics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Leonard Cohen,
Guru Guru,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Trojans,
Kerri Chandler,
Arcadia,
The Sound,
Cymande,
Brand Nubian,
Boz Scaggs,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlback,
Unrelated Segments,
Marmalade,
Barbara Tucker,
Neil Young,
The Index,
Peter and Kerry,
Gichy Dan,
Max Romeo,
Gong,
8 Eyed Spy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lucky Dragons,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rosa Yemen,
Amon Düül II,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Godley & Creme,
Youth Brigade,
The Monochrome Set,
Sex Pistols,
Oneida,
Minnie Riperton,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Axelrod,
The Standells,
Livin' Joy,
Silicon Teens,
Niagra,
John Lydon,
Duran Duran,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Flipper,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zapp,
Bill Wells,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
48th St. Collective,
The United States of America,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.