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 Sri Lanka and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manila.
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 spring reverb 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 Mighty Diamonds to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Eli Mardock,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ultra Naté,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Moon,
X-101,
Alton Ellis,
Bad Manners,
Wally Richardson,
Surgeon,
Grandmaster Flash,
La Düsseldorf,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bauhaus,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ken Boothe,
Yaz,
Kool Moe Dee,
Half Japanese,
Anthony Braxton,
Fugazi,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Duran Duran,
Colin Newman,
Can,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Audionom,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scott Walker,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Divine Comedy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tubeway Army,
Mission of Burma,
ABC,
Franke,
Rakim,
The Victims,
Fat Boys,
Byron Stingily,
Janne Schatter,
Marvin Gaye,
Shuggie Otis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jacob Miller,
Ponytail,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skriet,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Doors,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lalann,
Hoover,
Derrick May,
Robert Görl,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.