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 Brazil and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bill Near to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
the Association,
Eli Mardock,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Monolake,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Motions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Duran Duran,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Andrew Hill,
Maurizio,
The Last Poets,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swell Maps,
Ohio Players,
MC5,
Grey Daturas,
Funkadelic,
Dennis Brown,
Hoover,
Glambeats Corp.,
Susan Cadogan,
Sixth Finger,
China Crisis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kaleidoscope,
The J.B.'s,
Connie Case,
The Buckinghams,
Archie Shepp,
DJ Sneak,
Banda Bassotti,
the Bar-Kays,
Yazoo,
Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cheater Slicks,
Trumans Water,
Newcleus,
Moby Grape,
Crispian St. Peters,
Japan,
Alice Coltrane,
The Associates,
Erykah Badu,
Television Personalities,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.