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 St Lucia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kerrie Biddell to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Leonard Cohen,
Morten Harket,
Connie Case,
The Evens,
Icehouse,
Pharoah Sanders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hot Snakes,
Suburban Knight,
X-Ray Spex,
The J.B.'s,
Blake Baxter,
Outsiders,
Mars,
Crime,
The Mojo Men,
Qualms,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gories,
Ronan,
David Bowie,
The Techniques,
Brick,
Niagra,
Juan Atkins,
Oblivians,
Radio Birdman,
Jacques Brel,
Crash Course in Science,
Nirvana,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Black Bananas,
Quantec,
D'Angelo,
The Gun Club,
Junior Murvin,
Malaria!,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
AZ,
Harmonia,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boz Scaggs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rosa Yemen,
Ituana,
Terry Callier,
Sonic Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lyres,
Ice-T,
Jerry Gold Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.