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 Saudi Arabia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
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 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 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 Lakeside to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Young Marble Giants,
Index,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eddi Front,
48th St. Collective,
The J.B.'s,
Animal Collective,
The Birthday Party,
The Sonics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Freddie Wadling,
The Mojo Men,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Agitation Free,
Trumans Water,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Juan Atkins,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Little Man,
Goldenarms,
Mark Hollis,
Pierre Henry,
Jawbox,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
New Order,
JFA,
Flipper,
Hot Snakes,
Boz Scaggs,
Judy Mowatt,
Simply Red,
Bad Manners,
Ludus,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Depeche Mode,
Patti Smith,
Archie Shepp,
Parry Music,
Basic Channel,
Susan Cadogan,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Sheep,
Pole,
Scion,
Swans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anthony Braxton,
Bob Dylan,
Connie Case,
Black Moon,
Rod Modell,
Minny Pops,
Kaleidoscope,
Charles Mingus,
Eurythmics,
Aswad,
The Grass Roots,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.