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 Tuvalu and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 The Birthday Party to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terry Callier,
Accadde A,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Young Rascals,
The Gun Club,
Jeff Lynne,
Bill Wells,
Joey Negro,
Lower 48,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Davy DMX,
Inner City,
Minnie Riperton,
Juan Atkins,
Second Layer,
Joe Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
The Real Kids,
Subhumans,
Funky Four + One,
Scientists,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
OOIOO,
Desert Stars,
The Five Americans,
Jeru the Damaja,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mo-Dettes,
Spoonie Gee,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Excepter,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Wyatt,
The J.B.'s,
F. McDonald,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Prince Buster,
Bush Tetras,
These Immortal Souls,
The Litter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alison Limerick,
Stereo Dub,
Smog,
The Fire Engines,
Mandrill,
Reagan Youth,
a-ha,
Public Enemy,
Agitation Free,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rod Modell,
Metal Thangz,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.