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 Canada and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the grunge 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dead Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Boz Scaggs,
David Axelrod,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Al Stewart,
The Trojans,
Thee Headcoats,
Grauzone,
The Barracudas,
Inner City,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gap Band,
Supertramp,
Johnny Clarke,
David McCallum,
The Mojo Men,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Evens,
Soul Sonic Force,
One Last Wish,
The Sound,
Wolf Eyes,
Bob Dylan,
Gang Green,
Pere Ubu,
The Monochrome Set,
Joe Finger,
Nils Olav,
Lou Christie,
The Blackbyrds,
John Cale,
Heaven 17,
Wally Richardson,
Gang of Four,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dorothy Ashby,
New York Dolls,
Vainqueur,
Maurizio,
CMW,
Danielle Patucci,
Symarip,
Buzzcocks,
Agitation Free,
Section 25,
Flipper,
The Names,
Alison Limerick,
Audionom,
Moby Grape,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Kas Product,
Jandek,
The Walker Brothers,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.