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 Malaysia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the rock 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joy Division,
Sonic Youth,
The Standells,
Flash Fearless,
Niagra,
The Techniques,
Girls At Our Best!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Smog,
Fela Kuti,
Anthony Braxton,
The Happenings,
Technova,
E-Dancer,
Ornette Coleman,
Fatback Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joensuu 1685,
Rosa Yemen,
Iggy Pop,
Infiniti,
Ronan,
Faust,
The Detroit Cobras,
L. Decosne,
Bob Dylan,
CMW,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dave Gahan,
Nik Kershaw,
Tomorrow,
Kenny Larkin,
Khruangbin,
Kerri Chandler,
Surgeon,
Hot Snakes,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
In Retrospect,
The Dave Clark Five,
Henry Cow,
Terry Callier,
DJ Style,
Nick Fraelich,
June Days,
Hasil Adkins,
Andrew Hill,
Gabor Szabo,
Dawn Penn,
Ice-T,
Loose Ends,
Von Mondo,
Bad Manners,
Can,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cal Tjader,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.