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 Palau and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 AZ to the rap 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Sixth Finger,
Kenny Larkin,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cluster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bad Manners,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Groovy Waters,
Donny Hathaway,
Popol Vuh,
Darondo,
LL Cool J,
Pagans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fela Kuti,
Radiohead,
The Names,
La Düsseldorf,
Neil Young,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quando Quango,
Main Source,
The Human League,
Matthew Halsall,
Chris & Cosey,
Steve Hackett,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Womack,
Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
Albert Ayler,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
OOIOO,
Gregory Isaacs,
ABC,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wasted Youth,
Simply Red,
Kerri Chandler,
Cameo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gong,
Country Joe & The Fish,
X-Ray Spex,
Ohio Players,
Infiniti,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
Symarip,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Guru Guru,
The Golliwogs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nico,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.