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 Chile and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer 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 Cameo to the crunk 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
Brand Nubian,
John Cale,
Robert Hood,
Model 500,
The Moody Blues,
Pierre Henry,
Lightning Bolt,
Gabor Szabo,
The Young Rascals,
Harpers Bizarre,
Q65,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Toni Rubio,
MC5,
The American Breed,
the Germs,
the Swans,
Rakim,
8 Eyed Spy,
F. McDonald,
Panda Bear,
Lakeside,
Amon Düül II,
Country Teasers,
Flash Fearless,
Audionom,
Clear Light,
Rhythm & Sound,
Khruangbin,
Tres Demented,
This Heat,
Kaleidoscope,
Jawbox,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Knickerbockers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Young Marble Giants,
Pulsallama,
Liliput,
Brothers Johnson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pantaleimon,
Arcadia,
Organ,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gories,
The Smiths,
Simply Red,
Derrick Morgan,
Monolake,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Blancmange,
Ornette Coleman,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.