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 Finland and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ 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 June of 44 to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Desert Stars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang of Four,
Minor Threat,
This Heat,
Kurtis Blow,
Scion,
the Bar-Kays,
Sexual Harrassment,
The American Breed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fluxion,
Television Personalities,
JFA,
The Cowsills,
Wasted Youth,
Max Romeo,
Quadrant,
Essential Logic,
Joey Negro,
David Axelrod,
The Smiths,
Zero Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Boogie Down Productions,
a-ha,
The Star Department,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Grass Roots,
The Blues Magoos,
Franke,
Cymande,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rufus Thomas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Porter Ricks,
Audionom,
the Sonics,
10cc,
Mr. Review,
The Doobie Brothers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Magma,
Basic Channel,
Niagra,
The Searchers,
Andrew Hill,
Idris Muhammad,
Grey Daturas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Japan,
48th St. Collective,
Minnie Riperton,
Ohio Players,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.