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 Ghana and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro 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 Monochrome Set to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Franke,
Alton Ellis,
Tom Boy,
Rapeman,
The Evens,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cowsills,
Johnny Osbourne,
Piero Umiliani,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Smiths,
Echospace,
The Gap Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Green,
Scratch Acid,
Arcadia,
In Retrospect,
The Motions,
Ohio Players,
The Barracudas,
Maleditus Sound,
Fat Boys,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mojo Men,
The Blackbyrds,
Dual Sessions,
Albert Ayler,
Visage,
Marmalade,
Pole,
Index,
Heaven 17,
Basic Channel,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-101,
Minnie Riperton,
Joe Finger,
Warsaw,
Tres Demented,
Little Man,
Magma,
Masters at Work,
Essential Logic,
Dead Boys,
Scion,
a-ha,
The Vogues,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Smog,
The Fugs,
Chrome,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Near,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.