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 Canada and from Manchester.
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 Portland and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 United States of America to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan 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?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aswad,
H. Thieme,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Selecter,
Quadrant,
the Normal,
Rites of Spring,
Aaron Thompson,
Juan Atkins,
The Searchers,
MC5,
Faraquet,
Loose Ends,
Von Mondo,
Simply Red,
Gastr Del Sol,
Unrelated Segments,
Stereo Dub,
Marc Almond,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Moss Icon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
R.M.O.,
Patti Smith,
Brand Nubian,
Davy DMX,
Gang Gang Dance,
Drexciya,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erykah Badu,
DJ Style,
Man Parrish,
Alton Ellis,
Absolute Body Control,
Parry Music,
Deadbeat,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Green,
Duran Duran,
Smog,
Lungfish,
Sonic Youth,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fear,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Dead C,
Ronan,
Babytalk,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Wells,
Pierre Henry,
Sound Behaviour,
The Golliwogs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Con Funk Shun,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
ABC,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Neon Judgement,
Guru Guru,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.