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 Sudan and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the disco 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Altered Images,
Black Sheep,
Eurythmics,
Scion,
Clear Light,
Scan 7,
The Dead C,
Bush Tetras,
Qualms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Happenings,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grey Daturas,
Black Flag,
Derrick Morgan,
The Grass Roots,
New Age Steppers,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lyres,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Patti Smith,
Deepchord,
Dual Sessions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Neon Judgement,
Ultra Naté,
10cc,
Tubeway Army,
Khruangbin,
The Fugs,
Soft Machine,
The Birthday Party,
The Smoke,
Marvin Gaye,
Outsiders,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultravox,
The Flesh Eaters,
Swell Maps,
The Blackbyrds,
Fugazi,
Cheater Slicks,
Eli Mardock,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lakeside,
cv313,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scientists,
the Slits,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dave Gahan,
Mr. Review,
Rufus Thomas,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.