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 Somalia and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Michelle Simonal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joensuu 1685,
The Techniques,
UT,
MC5,
Soft Cell,
Essential Logic,
Agent Orange,
Talk Talk,
Lou Christie,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Stooges,
Lyres,
Sight & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Letta Mbulu,
The Selecter,
Silicon Teens,
Jerry's Kids,
The Durutti Column,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Susan Cadogan,
Gong,
Joey Negro,
Echospace,
Fugazi,
Brass Construction,
Gichy Dan,
This Heat,
Deakin,
The Wake,
Ronan,
Pere Ubu,
Amon Düül,
Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Osbourne,
Reagan Youth,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Blake Baxter,
David Axelrod,
Sixth Finger,
Buzzcocks,
The Angels of Light,
Piero Umiliani,
The Moleskins,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Robert Hood,
Japan,
Bootsy Collins,
Fluxion,
Isaac Hayes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Vogues,
Flipper,
T. Rex,
Radio Birdman,
Archie Shepp,
The Star Department,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.