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 Sweden and from Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Second Layer to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Absolute Body Control,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Main Source,
Alison Limerick,
Bizarre Inc.,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
The Pretty Things,
Procol Harum,
Au Pairs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
JFA,
Q and Not U,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
Ultravox,
The Divine Comedy,
Erykah Badu,
Crash Course in Science,
The Beau Brummels,
Massinfluence,
Ice-T,
Gang Green,
The Count Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Matthew Halsall,
The Red Krayola,
Lalann,
Donald Byrd,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camouflage,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Wyatt,
Skarface,
The Monochrome Set,
Wings,
The Techniques,
Roxy Music,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amazonics,
Colin Newman,
The Five Americans,
The Last Poets,
The Gun Club,
Banda Bassotti,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nas,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Trojans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jeff Lynne,
Sound Behaviour,
The Vogues,
Vladislav Delay,
Cecil Taylor,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.