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 Italy and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Golliwogs,
Bob Dylan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Derrick May,
Ituana,
Janne Schatter,
The Associates,
The Real Kids,
the Germs,
Mission of Burma,
The Wake,
Con Funk Shun,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kas Product,
Spoonie Gee,
Loose Ends,
Parry Music,
Boredoms,
ABC,
The Human League,
Nik Kershaw,
the Association,
Ten City,
Zapp,
The Leaves,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Womack,
Skarface,
Anthony Braxton,
Funkadelic,
Make Up,
Kaleidoscope,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
New Age Steppers,
Angry Samoans,
Second Layer,
Amazonics,
The Stooges,
The Zeros,
The Standells,
Youth Brigade,
Jandek,
Bobby Byrd,
The Misunderstood,
Marc Almond,
The Velvet Underground,
The Slits,
Fluxion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flipper,
Mantronix,
The Gories,
Japan,
Eden Ahbez,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Holt,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.