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 Lebanon and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Todd Rundgren to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gang of Four,
X-Ray Spex,
The Flesh Eaters,
Adolescents,
Unrelated Segments,
The Move,
Pulsallama,
The Zeros,
Tres Demented,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lakeside,
OOIOO,
June of 44,
Wire,
Man Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Simply Red,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lindisfarne,
Sonic Youth,
Sound Behaviour,
Brothers Johnson,
Procol Harum,
Derrick May,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Main Source,
Chris & Cosey,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ornette Coleman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Monochrome Set,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bauhaus,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
The Trojans,
Index,
Neu!,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jerry's Kids,
ABC,
Television Personalities,
The Modern Lovers,
Intrusion,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nik Kershaw,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Byrd,
Traffic Nightmare,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.