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 East Timor and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Fear to the jazz 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Susan Cadogan,
Freddie Wadling,
Television,
Arthur Verocai,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Christie,
Gabor Szabo,
48th St. Collective,
The Fall,
Albert Ayler,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
New Age Steppers,
MC5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ponytail,
Vainqueur,
Q65,
Eddi Front,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
H. Thieme,
Grey Daturas,
David Bowie,
Parry Music,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hashim,
Stockholm Monsters,
K-Klass,
Theoretical Girls,
The Sonics,
Agent Orange,
Flash Fearless,
Ten City,
Sparks,
Anakelly,
Swell Maps,
Excepter,
Minnie Riperton,
Throbbing Gristle,
Quadrant,
Amon Düül II,
Adolescents,
Sam Rivers,
Alphaville,
Pylon,
kango's stein massive,
Drive Like Jehu,
Smog,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Cale,
Moss Icon,
Fatback Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barrington Levy,
Hasil Adkins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lee Hazlewood,
Flipper,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.