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 Kosovo and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar 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 Newcleus to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Porter Ricks,
Shuggie Otis,
Faraquet,
The Evens,
ABBA,
Sonic Youth,
The Misunderstood,
ABC,
Flash Fearless,
James White and The Blacks,
Peter & Gordon,
Nico,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Panda Bear,
48th St. Collective,
cv313,
Depeche Mode,
Trumans Water,
Icehouse,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Essential Logic,
Bush Tetras,
The Velvet Underground,
The Doobie Brothers,
Masters at Work,
Darondo,
10cc,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Alton Ellis,
Patti Smith,
Model 500,
In Retrospect,
Goldenarms,
Alice Coltrane,
Camouflage,
Dorothy Ashby,
Toni Rubio,
Blake Baxter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ponytail,
The Fortunes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
UT,
Sällskapet,
Lower 48,
Kerrie Biddell,
Y Pants,
The Leaves,
Country Teasers,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jacques Brel,
John Coltrane,
Motorama,
Lakeside,
Pantytec,
The Neon Judgement,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.