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 Solomon Islands and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Grass Roots to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Rhythm & Sound,
Circle Jerks,
The Martian,
T.S.O.L.,
Scientists,
Peter & Gordon,
Intrusion,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Tremeloes,
Man Parrish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Simply Red,
Ultimate Spinach,
Motorama,
Guru Guru,
Tomorrow,
Derrick May,
Ultravox,
Thompson Twins,
Leonard Cohen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wolf Eyes,
Matthew Bourne,
David Bowie,
The Move,
Hardrive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Urselle,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sex Pistols,
Symarip,
Danielle Patucci,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Slackers,
The Remains,
Main Source,
Marmalade,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joey Negro,
Popol Vuh,
The Black Dice,
Supertramp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Carl Craig,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Freddie Wadling,
Aloha Tigers,
The Cure,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pussy Galore,
Minny Pops,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Slits,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.