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 United Kingdom and from London.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Roxy Music to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Agent Orange,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smoke,
Vainqueur,
Soft Machine,
The Cowsills,
Grey Daturas,
Shuggie Otis,
Supertramp,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Q65,
Bang On A Can,
Delon & Dalcan,
X-101,
Thee Headcoats,
the Bar-Kays,
Piero Umiliani,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
Brothers Johnson,
Au Pairs,
The Fortunes,
The Gun Club,
Rod Modell,
Schoolly D,
Aaron Thompson,
Skarface,
Bob Dylan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pet Shop Boys,
Babytalk,
Mo-Dettes,
Easy Going,
Khruangbin,
Kurtis Blow,
Max Romeo,
Danielle Patucci,
Inner City,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Slits,
the Germs,
Wasted Youth,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Sneak,
The Fuzztones,
The Gories,
The Vogues,
Cluster,
The American Breed,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Arcadia,
Scan 7,
Gerry Rafferty,
In Retrospect,
X-102,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.