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 Colombia and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Connie Case to the rock 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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 Birthday Party,
The Toasters,
Eurythmics,
Freddie Wadling,
New York Dolls,
Hashim,
Panda Bear,
Duran Duran,
Schoolly D,
Aural Exciters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Animal Collective,
Amon Düül,
The Divine Comedy,
Derrick May,
Camberwell Now,
Ronan,
Ken Boothe,
Glenn Branca,
Roger Hodgson,
Swell Maps,
Skarface,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gichy Dan,
The Modern Lovers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Second Layer,
Erykah Badu,
Technova,
Zero Boys,
Mark Hollis,
Max Romeo,
10cc,
Howard Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Letta Mbulu,
The Skatalites,
Alice Coltrane,
Vainqueur,
Gang Starr,
Sound Behaviour,
a-ha,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visage,
Quadrant,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Leonard Cohen,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Zeros,
Jeff Lynne,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.