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 France and from London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Steve Hackett,
Drexciya,
Public Enemy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lalo Schifrin,
Intrusion,
Altered Images,
The Electric Prunes,
Jacob Miller,
The Cure,
Sarah Menescal,
the Sonics,
Whodini,
One Last Wish,
The Barracudas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tom Boy,
The Fire Engines,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joe Finger,
Hoover,
Eyeless In Gaza,
X-102,
Goldenarms,
The Real Kids,
Subhumans,
Groovy Waters,
Interpol,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
X-101,
Roy Ayers,
Eden Ahbez,
48th St. Collective,
Neil Young,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Don Cherry,
Thee Headcoats,
T. Rex,
La Düsseldorf,
Adolescents,
Bush Tetras,
The Vogues,
The Stooges,
Stereo Dub,
Chrome,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hashim,
Maurizio,
Spoonie Gee,
Lebanon Hanover,
DJ Sneak,
Morten Harket,
Panda Bear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camouflage,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.