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 Morocco and from Beijing.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 New Age Steppers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Donny Hathaway,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rhythm & Sound,
Circle Jerks,
China Crisis,
Todd Rundgren,
Mission of Burma,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Mummies,
Deepchord,
Black Sheep,
Fatback Band,
Newcleus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scan 7,
The Techniques,
Eric Copeland,
Oblivians,
La Düsseldorf,
Delta 5,
The Motions,
KRS-One,
The Misunderstood,
The Doors,
Soul II Soul,
Arcadia,
The Vogues,
Das Ding,
Judy Mowatt,
Bill Near,
Dennis Brown,
Peter & Gordon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Anakelly,
Robert Hood,
Niagra,
The Standells,
Tomorrow,
These Immortal Souls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joe Finger,
The Litter,
Duran Duran,
Brick,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
John Coltrane,
Kurtis Blow,
The Seeds,
Al Stewart,
The Gun Club,
Marmalade,
cv313,
Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.