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 Mali and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
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 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 Ultimate Spinach to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Ice-T,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Yazoo,
Royal Trux,
Oneida,
Ituana,
Glenn Branca,
The Cramps,
Carl Craig,
Idris Muhammad,
Freddie Wadling,
Sex Pistols,
Funkadelic,
The Tremeloes,
The Cowsills,
The Evens,
Popol Vuh,
Television,
Sister Nancy,
Scott Walker,
Radio Birdman,
Supertramp,
Lyres,
Chris & Cosey,
Alison Limerick,
Michelle Simonal,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cal Tjader,
Sam Rivers,
Stetsasonic,
Andrew Hill,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lungfish,
Thee Headcoats,
OOIOO,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Skriet,
Deadbeat,
Gichy Dan,
Agent Orange,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neil Young,
Laurel Aitken,
Erasure,
The Young Rascals,
Rapeman,
The Move,
Schoolly D,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Janne Schatter,
Crispy Ambulance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Simply Red,
Max Romeo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gong,
Soft Machine,
Mary Jane Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.