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 Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Maurizio to the techno 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Qualms,
Crispy Ambulance,
New Age Steppers,
Peter & Gordon,
Roxette,
Aural Exciters,
Dead Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
EPMD,
Albert Ayler,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
X-Ray Spex,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cowsills,
Grandmaster Flash,
a-ha,
Henry Cow,
Oblivians,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gerry Rafferty,
The American Breed,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sugar Minott,
John Lydon,
Swell Maps,
Main Source,
Icehouse,
The Slackers,
Funky Four + One,
The Fuzztones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Outsiders,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Bananas,
Rotary Connection,
Laurel Aitken,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Dead C,
The Move,
Pussy Galore,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skarface,
The Stooges,
Ultra Naté,
Loose Ends,
Subhumans,
The Invisible,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
OOIOO,
The Doobie Brothers,
Khruangbin,
Matthew Halsall,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Kinks,
Pole,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.