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 Rwanda and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the rock 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Pierre Henry,
Man Eating Sloth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
Popol Vuh,
Scratch Acid,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
In Retrospect,
U.S. Maple,
James White and The Blacks,
Sam Rivers,
Archie Shepp,
John Foxx,
The Fire Engines,
Joe Smooth,
Roger Hodgson,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Moon,
T. Rex,
Barry Ungar,
The Gap Band,
Blake Baxter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fela Kuti,
Black Pus,
Funkadelic,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camberwell Now,
Kerri Chandler,
Ten City,
the Human League,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Gang Dance,
EPMD,
John Cale,
Tom Boy,
Byron Stingily,
Porter Ricks,
Monks,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Sheep,
Sarah Menescal,
Slick Rick,
Howard Jones,
Magma,
Kurtis Blow,
Aloha Tigers,
Swans,
Lou Reed,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Pretty Things,
Outsiders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rekid,
Goldenarms,
Robert Wyatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Girls At Our Best!,
Niagra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.