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 Seychelles and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ronan to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
The Blackbyrds,
Saccharine Trust,
Das Ding,
The Real Kids,
The Fire Engines,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dark Day,
Soft Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter & Gordon,
Yazoo,
Todd Rundgren,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amon Düül,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rotary Connection,
The Young Rascals,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wally Richardson,
EPMD,
In Retrospect,
Chrome,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pole,
Absolute Body Control,
Dennis Brown,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Arab on Radar,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Davy DMX,
Steve Hackett,
The Smiths,
The Slits,
Tom Boy,
Amon Düül II,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cal Tjader,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Selecter,
Sex Pistols,
Smog,
Vladislav Delay,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moebius,
Groovy Waters,
Talk Talk,
Ludus,
Wire,
Archie Shepp,
Freddie Wadling,
New Order,
Soulsonic Force,
Audionom,
Rekid,
Niagra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.