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 Cape Verde and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Soft Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
The Standells,
CMW,
Kerri Chandler,
Albert Ayler,
Siglo XX,
The Human League,
This Heat,
the Fania All-Stars,
Iggy Pop,
Pulsallama,
Aural Exciters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Judy Mowatt,
Massinfluence,
Graham Central Station,
Organ,
June Days,
Cameo,
Rhythm & Sound,
Young Marble Giants,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Cramps,
Nick Fraelich,
The Monochrome Set,
Wings,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Swans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Buckinghams,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott Heron,
Au Pairs,
Tim Buckley,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Gladiators,
Marc Almond,
John Cale,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Count Five,
Dennis Brown,
Alton Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sonic Youth,
Excepter,
John Lydon,
Pantaleimon,
The Leaves,
Traffic Nightmare,
Angry Samoans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Man Parrish,
Max Romeo,
Wolf Eyes,
Eric Dolphy,
The Techniques,
The Detroit Cobras,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.