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 Peru and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 Misunderstood to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Morten Harket,
Second Layer,
a-ha,
Warren Ellis,
The Electric Prunes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Parry Music,
Alphaville,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Wyatt,
Ronan,
The Red Krayola,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Move,
Ludus,
X-Ray Spex,
Marvin Gaye,
Rosa Yemen,
Loose Ends,
Chris & Cosey,
Make Up,
Girls At Our Best!,
Theoretical Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fugs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sällskapet,
Brothers Johnson,
The J.B.'s,
Idris Muhammad,
Pagans,
The Count Five,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Liliput,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tim Buckley,
Jimmy McGriff,
Deadbeat,
Duran Duran,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Sheep,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boz Scaggs,
Interpol,
X-101,
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker,
Ken Boothe,
Youth Brigade,
Negative Approach,
Laurel Aitken,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soulsonic Force,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.