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 Grenada and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Remains 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
The Motions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Los Fastidios,
The Zeros,
World's Most,
Make Up,
Unrelated Segments,
Faust,
the Germs,
Deepchord,
The Martian,
Porter Ricks,
Model 500,
the Fania All-Stars,
Underground Resistance,
Eden Ahbez,
This Heat,
Little Man,
The Misunderstood,
Mantronix,
Crime,
Magazine,
The United States of America,
Kas Product,
The Gun Club,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joe Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Letta Mbulu,
Mr. Review,
One Last Wish,
Soft Machine,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
A Certain Ratio,
Public Image Ltd.,
Schoolly D,
Marvin Gaye,
Television,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Isaac Hayes,
Moby Grape,
Sunsets and Hearts,
E-Dancer,
The Slackers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Flipper,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pere Ubu,
The Modern Lovers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Walker Brothers,
Jacques Brel,
Bronski Beat,
Depeche Mode,
Susan Cadogan,
The Red Krayola,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nils Olav,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.