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 San Marino and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
ABC,
The United States of America,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Quantec,
Ludus,
Erasure,
Eli Mardock,
Arthur Verocai,
10cc,
Barrington Levy,
The Selecter,
Angry Samoans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Q and Not U,
Fear,
The J.B.'s,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Traffic Nightmare,
This Heat,
Archie Shepp,
CMW,
Mr. Review,
Tom Boy,
Swans,
Animal Collective,
Excepter,
Marc Almond,
The Fuzztones,
Reagan Youth,
Faust,
Stiv Bators,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Robert Wyatt,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Section 25,
Q65,
Rapeman,
Wolf Eyes,
R.M.O.,
Brick,
The Offenders,
Gang Green,
The Electric Prunes,
Bootsy Collins,
Aaron Thompson,
Sun City Girls,
Harry Pussy,
Dual Sessions,
Barry Ungar,
The New Christs,
Cal Tjader,
La Düsseldorf,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Youth Brigade,
Talk Talk,
Scientists,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.