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 Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 Jeff Lynne to the techno 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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Boogie Down Productions,
H. Thieme,
The Doors,
Fluxion,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dead Boys,
Intrusion,
Ice-T,
The Vogues,
The Techniques,
Desert Stars,
the Fania All-Stars,
Model 500,
Robert Wyatt,
Chris & Cosey,
Tubeway Army,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonic Youth,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Andrew Hill,
EPMD,
The Mummies,
The Names,
Newcleus,
FM Einheit,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ten City,
Country Teasers,
The Blackbyrds,
Kurtis Blow,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lindisfarne,
Pole,
The Trojans,
Moss Icon,
Don Cherry,
Outsiders,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Subhumans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Basic Channel,
Cheater Slicks,
Blake Baxter,
ABC,
Kerri Chandler,
Schoolly D,
Rosa Yemen,
Soft Machine,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Von Mondo,
Boz Scaggs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.