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 Iraq and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord 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 Trumans Water to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Severed Heads,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Germs,
Joe Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
Sight & Sound,
K-Klass,
Young Marble Giants,
10cc,
Dark Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sun Ra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultravox,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ituana,
Bush Tetras,
Agent Orange,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
Lindisfarne,
Graham Central Station,
Eli Mardock,
Loose Ends,
The Litter,
The Birthday Party,
Bootsy Collins,
Heaven 17,
Technova,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Avey Tare,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Livin' Joy,
T.S.O.L.,
Radiohead,
Schoolly D,
Scion,
Crime,
Jacques Brel,
Basic Channel,
Todd Terry,
Funky Four + One,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Boz Scaggs,
Colin Newman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Blancmange,
Ossler,
Quando Quango,
John Cale,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rapeman,
The Knickerbockers,
The Invisible,
Ten City,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger,
Agitation Free,
Bob Dylan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.