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 Tonga and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rosa Yemen to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord 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 chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
June Days,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Blues Magoos,
Ludus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Massinfluence,
Amon Düül II,
Deepchord,
Severed Heads,
Cameo,
Funky Four + One,
Minor Threat,
The Associates,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ohio Players,
Jacob Miller,
The Sound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cal Tjader,
World's Most,
The Misunderstood,
A Flock of Seagulls,
E-Dancer,
Eric Copeland,
the Association,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Malaria!,
Throbbing Gristle,
Country Teasers,
Qualms,
Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter,
MDC,
Roxette,
Grauzone,
Main Source,
Reagan Youth,
Maurizio,
Graham Central Station,
Be Bop Deluxe,
These Immortal Souls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dead Boys,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bush Tetras,
The Angels of Light,
Pole,
Steve Hackett,
The Dave Clark Five,
Arcadia,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Interpol,
Pussy Galore,
Cymande,
The Move,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.