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 Papua New Guinea and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Althea and Donna,
Al Stewart,
Deadbeat,
Kenny Larkin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
China Crisis,
Stetsasonic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
New York Dolls,
Scrapy,
Juan Atkins,
The Divine Comedy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Zeros,
Colin Newman,
Wings,
The Moleskins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Moon,
Henry Cow,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Big Daddy Kane,
John Lydon,
The Toasters,
Isaac Hayes,
Groovy Waters,
Warsaw,
Newcleus,
CMW,
DJ Sneak,
Goldenarms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Make Up,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Leaves,
The Seeds,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
Panda Bear,
Black Sheep,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bush Tetras,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gang Gang Dance,
Freddie Wadling,
R.M.O.,
Hashim,
The Fire Engines,
Don Cherry,
the Fania All-Stars,
Blancmange,
Severed Heads,
The Slackers,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.