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 Denmark and from Manchester.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba 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 Ronan to the electroclash 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Albert Ayler,
Lightning Bolt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sparks,
Severed Heads,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cluster,
Barry Ungar,
Arab on Radar,
The Slits,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crash Course in Science,
Barrington Levy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Shoche,
The Martian,
Easy Going,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eurythmics,
Mars,
Warsaw,
Blossom Toes,
Agitation Free,
Quando Quango,
Stereo Dub,
Wally Richardson,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Visage,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Bar-Kays,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Animal Collective,
Aloha Tigers,
The Techniques,
kango's stein massive,
Essential Logic,
Jacques Brel,
Bill Near,
Marmalade,
Brick,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marine Girls,
David McCallum,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soul II Soul,
The Index,
Rotary Connection,
The Cure,
ABC,
The Fortunes,
the Sonics,
The Dirtbombs,
Judy Mowatt,
EPMD,
Sandy B,
Steve Hackett,
Pussy Galore,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.