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 Slovakia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 Cecil Taylor to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Panda Bear,
the Soft Cell,
Essential Logic,
Alphaville,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Animal Collective,
Khruangbin,
The Fugs,
Amon Düül,
Mark Hollis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dual Sessions,
Arab on Radar,
Janne Schatter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy Collins,
Theoretical Girls,
Average White Band,
John Foxx,
The Walker Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
Fat Boys,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Cramps,
The Music Machine,
Donald Byrd,
The Pop Group,
Fad Gadget,
Suicide,
Bad Manners,
Marvin Gaye,
Metal Thangz,
The Monks,
kango's stein massive,
Duran Duran,
Kurtis Blow,
Lalann,
Aswad,
Isaac Hayes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
10cc,
Severed Heads,
Lou Christie,
The Gap Band,
Q and Not U,
Infiniti,
Reagan Youth,
Moebius,
Eve St. Jones,
Terry Callier,
Popol Vuh,
Inner City,
Pagans,
Davy DMX,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Section 25,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.