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 Yemen and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ 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 Robert Görl to the punk 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Icehouse,
The Index,
Flash Fearless,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Anthony Braxton,
Radiohead,
Susan Cadogan,
Lou Reed,
X-101,
CMW,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
T. Rex,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bill Near,
Second Layer,
Can,
Reuben Wilson,
Grey Daturas,
David McCallum,
the Association,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cluster,
Tim Buckley,
Howard Jones,
Eve St. Jones,
The Blues Magoos,
The Smoke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Vladislav Delay,
The Count Five,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultravox,
Quantec,
This Heat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Toasters,
Thee Headcoats,
Amon Düül,
Glenn Branca,
Scion,
Minor Threat,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mars,
Ossler,
Eden Ahbez,
Procol Harum,
June Days,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sam Rivers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ituana,
Fat Boys,
The Moleskins,
Goldenarms,
Camouflage,
Wasted Youth,
Fugazi,
Depeche Mode,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.