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 Brunei and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 In Retrospect to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
MDC,
Josef K,
Kas Product,
The Monochrome Set,
Pulsallama,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
Main Source,
Chris Corsano,
Tommy Roe,
Archie Shepp,
Colin Newman,
48th St. Collective,
Tres Demented,
Jandek,
Carl Craig,
Man Parrish,
Warsaw,
Stiv Bators,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ronnie Foster,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Music Machine,
The Golliwogs,
The United States of America,
Stereo Dub,
Television Personalities,
Cymande,
Country Teasers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Evens,
The Flesh Eaters,
Motorama,
Dark Day,
The Gun Club,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Laurel Aitken,
Groovy Waters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Robert Wyatt,
Roxy Music,
The Count Five,
The Grass Roots,
Isaac Hayes,
The Move,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Slits,
Hoover,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Graham Central Station,
Japan,
The Young Rascals,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crooked Eye,
Unwound,
Mr. Review,
Lou Christie,
Amon Düül II,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.