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 Moldova and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
The Offenders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boz Scaggs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Thompson Twins,
Mo-Dettes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sparks,
Pere Ubu,
The Shadows of Knight,
Absolute Body Control,
Kayak,
Icehouse,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sun Ra,
China Crisis,
a-ha,
The Pretty Things,
Mad Mike,
Derrick May,
Faust,
Carl Craig,
Don Cherry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deadbeat,
Spandau Ballet,
Loose Ends,
Aaron Thompson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tom Boy,
The United States of America,
Archie Shepp,
MC5,
Eddi Front,
Little Man,
Slave,
T.S.O.L.,
Jerry's Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Tears for Fears,
Harry Pussy,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Moody Blues,
Warsaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Evens,
Quando Quango,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Connie Case,
Radiohead,
Pantaleimon,
Gabor Szabo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Kinks,
The Invisible,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang of Four,
The Searchers,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.