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 United States and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar 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 World's Most to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Freddie Wadling,
Loose Ends,
The Buckinghams,
Banda Bassotti,
The Selecter,
Unrelated Segments,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Y Pants,
New York Dolls,
Dawn Penn,
ABBA,
The Dirtbombs,
Nation of Ulysses,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Martian,
Desert Stars,
Colin Newman,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bluetip,
Graham Central Station,
Siglo XX,
Boredoms,
Suburban Knight,
Babytalk,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tomorrow,
Sun Ra,
Saccharine Trust,
Stiv Bators,
OOIOO,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sister Nancy,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alison Limerick,
Marine Girls,
Ponytail,
Todd Terry,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Toni Rubio,
Howard Jones,
CMW,
Johnny Osbourne,
Country Teasers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moebius,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brick,
Pylon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Q and Not U,
Metal Thangz,
Stetsasonic,
The Five Americans,
Arab on Radar,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.