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 Swaziland and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
The J.B.'s,
Prince Buster,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fire Engines,
Black Flag,
Henry Cow,
Letta Mbulu,
Sonic Youth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hoover,
The Skatalites,
Smog,
The Toasters,
Black Pus,
The American Breed,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
CMW,
Jimmy McGriff,
Anakelly,
Mantronix,
Gerry Rafferty,
Maurizio,
Fad Gadget,
Joyce Sims,
Glenn Branca,
Josef K,
The Invisible,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cure,
Q and Not U,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Görl,
Marine Girls,
Tears for Fears,
LL Cool J,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Babytalk,
Godley & Creme,
Simply Red,
Audionom,
The Pop Group,
Patti Smith,
Skaos,
Danielle Patucci,
Brand Nubian,
Minny Pops,
Echospace,
The Victims,
Rites of Spring,
The Slackers,
Peter and Kerry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Idris Muhammad,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Erykah Badu,
Bronski Beat,
Wolf Eyes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.