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 Italy 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Mr. Review to the dance 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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Bang On A Can,
The J.B.'s,
Black Bananas,
Grauzone,
Todd Terry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Michelle Simonal,
Buzzcocks,
MDC,
James Chance & The Contortions,
PIL,
Eve St. Jones,
David Axelrod,
Brass Construction,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hardrive,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fortunes,
Public Enemy,
Dead Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Names,
Marmalade,
Leonard Cohen,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gang Starr,
the Slits,
Scratch Acid,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Underground Resistance,
John Holt,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
JFA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marc Almond,
X-101,
The Young Rascals,
Sister Nancy,
D'Angelo,
Juan Atkins,
the Soft Cell,
Al Stewart,
Archie Shepp,
Y Pants,
Groovy Waters,
Arcadia,
Scientists,
Gerry Rafferty,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fuzztones,
Crash Course in Science,
Harpers Bizarre,
Unrelated Segments,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Martian,
Television,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.