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 Azerbaijan and from Delhi.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Guru Guru to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Niagra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cowsills,
Cymande,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radiopuhelimet,
Piero Umiliani,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sonic Youth,
New Order,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Skatalites,
Yazoo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang of Four,
Animal Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Isaac Hayes,
Crooked Eye,
Sandy B,
Rakim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stiv Bators,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Buckinghams,
Television,
Grey Daturas,
The Golliwogs,
Qualms,
Section 25,
Todd Terry,
Mark Hollis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
The Martian,
The Blackbyrds,
Tears for Fears,
Laurel Aitken,
The Tremeloes,
Maleditus Sound,
The Slits,
Barry Ungar,
Fear,
James White and The Blacks,
The Sound,
Boredoms,
Index,
F. McDonald,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agent Orange,
The Birthday Party,
Groovy Waters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.