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 Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manila.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Drive Like Jehu to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
The Cure,
Radio Birdman,
Quando Quango,
Eric B and Rakim,
Loose Ends,
Mad Mike,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eddi Front,
Fluxion,
The Slackers,
Yazoo,
Black Flag,
Franke,
Dawn Penn,
Grey Daturas,
Sun City Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Qualms,
Bluetip,
The Human League,
Yellowson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scott Walker,
Gerry Rafferty,
Radiohead,
ABC,
The Vogues,
Echospace,
Quadrant,
Popol Vuh,
The Happenings,
Todd Rundgren,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marmalade,
Amon Düül II,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Warsaw,
Sällskapet,
Pussy Galore,
Skaos,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Monks,
The Beau Brummels,
Cymande,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Foxx,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Byrd,
The Knickerbockers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Funky Four + One,
Kerri Chandler,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.