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 Georgia and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Alice Coltrane to the rap 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace 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?
Kayak,
The Sound,
Sister Nancy,
The Black Dice,
Tubeway Army,
Derrick Morgan,
The Residents,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Modern Lovers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smoke,
The Fall,
X-Ray Spex,
FM Einheit,
Unrelated Segments,
Vainqueur,
Kurtis Blow,
Dawn Penn,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fat Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
Icehouse,
Second Layer,
Monks,
Arthur Verocai,
Slave,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Flag,
Stetsasonic,
Glenn Branca,
Average White Band,
The Birthday Party,
The Blackbyrds,
The Pretty Things,
Nils Olav,
Aural Exciters,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Make Up,
Accadde A,
the Slits,
Hoover,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roger Hodgson,
Agitation Free,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Remains,
The New Christs,
Sound Behaviour,
Lalann,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Toasters,
Connie Case,
Altered Images,
Joyce Sims,
The Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soulsonic Force,
E-Dancer,
Jacob Miller,
Grandmaster Flash,
Qualms,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.