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 China and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lindisfarne to the electroclash 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Halsall,
MC5,
Sun City Girls,
Mr. Review,
Half Japanese,
Rosa Yemen,
Maurizio,
The Human League,
Man Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Slackers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ten City,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
Derrick May,
the Germs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Godley & Creme,
Neu!,
OOIOO,
The Associates,
The Blackbyrds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rakim,
Sound Behaviour,
The Skatalites,
Sandy B,
Arcadia,
David McCallum,
Schoolly D,
The Zeros,
New Age Steppers,
Steve Hackett,
The American Breed,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warsaw,
Maleditus Sound,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Suburban Knight,
Gang of Four,
Arthur Verocai,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Connie Case,
Cybotron,
Monks,
Pole,
Minutemen,
This Heat,
The Happenings,
Rufus Thomas,
Minny Pops,
Nirvana,
Talk Talk,
Bad Manners,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dual Sessions,
The Fire Engines,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.