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 Afghanistan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 arpeggiator 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 Crooked Eye to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
The Sound,
Bauhaus,
The Gap Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalo Schifrin,
In Retrospect,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fuzztones,
Essential Logic,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dave Gahan,
Television Personalities,
Half Japanese,
Kas Product,
Fugazi,
Isaac Hayes,
DJ Sneak,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tom Boy,
Charles Mingus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pulsallama,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Niagra,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
Average White Band,
Junior Murvin,
Michelle Simonal,
Pagans,
Cybotron,
The Toasters,
X-102,
Sun City Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Organ,
La Düsseldorf,
Derrick Morgan,
The Young Rascals,
R.M.O.,
Archie Shepp,
Marmalade,
Danielle Patucci,
Symarip,
Ultravox,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
David McCallum,
Cameo,
Byron Stingily,
Hasil Adkins,
Aural Exciters,
Tres Demented,
LL Cool J,
Nas,
Sister Nancy,
Alice Coltrane,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.