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 Grenada and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 the Swans to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Stetsasonic,
Nirvana,
KRS-One,
Altered Images,
Schoolly D,
Minor Threat,
Niagra,
Cameo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Donny Hathaway,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lightning Bolt,
Soft Machine,
Moebius,
Fatback Band,
Aswad,
Slick Rick,
The New Christs,
Peter & Gordon,
Blake Baxter,
Avey Tare,
X-102,
The Seeds,
Deadbeat,
Alice Coltrane,
Bang On A Can,
The Fugs,
Dual Sessions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boz Scaggs,
The Misunderstood,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Birthday Party,
Lakeside,
The American Breed,
Alison Limerick,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Procol Harum,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cymande,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gun Club,
The Pretty Things,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David McCallum,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
This Heat,
FM Einheit,
Black Pus,
Derrick May,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bush Tetras,
The Techniques,
Erykah Badu,
Trumans Water,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.