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 New Zealand and from New York.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Gap Band to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Los Fastidios,
The Velvet Underground,
Sixth Finger,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monolake,
Roxette,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Shadows of Knight,
ABC,
Davy DMX,
The Mojo Men,
Parry Music,
Marvin Gaye,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blake Baxter,
Thompson Twins,
Ten City,
Surgeon,
Drexciya,
The Gun Club,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barry Ungar,
The Fuzztones,
Pere Ubu,
The Doors,
The Moody Blues,
Harry Pussy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Seeds,
X-Ray Spex,
The Smiths,
Supertramp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sonics,
Aaron Thompson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Shuggie Otis,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scientists,
Bizarre Inc.,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Womack,
Soul Sonic Force,
Minny Pops,
Mission of Burma,
The Litter,
Kayak,
Massinfluence,
Neu!,
Jacob Miller,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.