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 Eritrea and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
June Days,
Negative Approach,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Saints,
Liliput,
Boredoms,
Camouflage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
Kurtis Blow,
Average White Band,
Fear,
Eric Copeland,
Mo-Dettes,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobby Sherman,
Royal Trux,
Drive Like Jehu,
Blancmange,
Tres Demented,
Angry Samoans,
The Kinks,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
MDC,
Lungfish,
Connie Case,
Sällskapet,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sex Pistols,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Brick,
Swell Maps,
Tubeway Army,
Desert Stars,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Swans,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sarah Menescal,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crispian St. Peters,
Michelle Simonal,
Sandy B,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fire Engines,
Sight & Sound,
the Association,
Bizarre Inc.,
Andrew Hill,
Aswad,
Boz Scaggs,
JFA,
Dual Sessions,
The Sonics,
Black Moon,
Smog, Smog, Smog, Smog.
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.