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 Portugal and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
48th St. Collective,
Black Sheep,
Flash Fearless,
Minor Threat,
Gastr Del Sol,
Motorama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Outsiders,
Marc Almond,
Groovy Waters,
Can,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
K-Klass,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wasted Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oneida,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Moss Icon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Altered Images,
Dead Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
cv313,
X-Ray Spex,
Man Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Zeros,
Talk Talk,
Ohio Players,
Grey Daturas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boredoms,
CMW,
Chris & Cosey,
Television Personalities,
Henry Cow,
Deepchord,
Sam Rivers,
These Immortal Souls,
The Barracudas,
the Association,
Max Romeo,
Danielle Patucci,
Average White Band,
Bluetip,
Scientists,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fall,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald,
Bobby Womack,
PIL,
Essential Logic,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.