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 Jordan and from London.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lalo Schifrin to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Sugar Minott,
Skaos,
Bauhaus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Negative Approach,
Delon & Dalcan,
U.S. Maple,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Walker Brothers,
Ituana,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hardrive,
Archie Shepp,
Josef K,
The Fortunes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Human League,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Outsiders,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Amon Düül,
Neu!,
Stiv Bators,
The Trojans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Qualms,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tomorrow,
The J.B.'s,
Andrew Hill,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Green,
A Flock of Seagulls,
David Bowie,
Be Bop Deluxe,
DNA,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Trumans Water,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Buckinghams,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young,
DJ Style,
Kerri Chandler,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gregory Isaacs,
Connie Case,
Piero Umiliani,
The Litter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Underground Resistance,
Pantaleimon,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.