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 El Salvador and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Crispian St. Peters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
The Gap Band,
Trumans Water,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
B.T. Express,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cowsills,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stiv Bators,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cheater Slicks,
DNA,
Panda Bear,
Letta Mbulu,
Saccharine Trust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Slick Rick,
ABBA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Schoolly D,
KRS-One,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amazonics,
Prince Buster,
Main Source,
The Misunderstood,
Rapeman,
Dave Gahan,
The Red Krayola,
June of 44,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eric Dolphy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Thompson Twins,
Slave,
Pagans,
Sun Ra,
Oneida,
Au Pairs,
Henry Cow,
Barrington Levy,
Neu!,
Monks,
Porter Ricks,
the Association,
Model 500,
Barclay James Harvest,
Delta 5,
Scientists,
Scion,
James White and The Blacks,
Pierre Henry,
Tears for Fears,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Iggy Pop,
U.S. Maple,
Magazine,
Young Marble Giants,
Vainqueur,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.