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 Turkmenistan and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lungfish to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Average White Band,
Cal Tjader,
The Remains,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Steve Hackett,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
The Move,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
This Heat,
Black Sheep,
Barbara Tucker,
The Kinks,
Mission of Burma,
The Music Machine,
Don Cherry,
Nico,
Matthew Bourne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Metal Thangz,
Peter & Gordon,
Amazonics,
Roger Hodgson,
Pulsallama,
Siglo XX,
R.M.O.,
Man Parrish,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mummies,
A Certain Ratio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ituana,
Morten Harket,
China Crisis,
Ultra Naté,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Make Up,
The Slackers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Electric Prunes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Avey Tare,
Soft Machine,
Wally Richardson,
FM Einheit,
Stockholm Monsters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Todd Terry,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camouflage,
Excepter,
The Fire Engines,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.