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 Samoa and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s 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 Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Alphaville,
The Young Rascals,
The Cowsills,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fluxion,
John Lydon,
The Modern Lovers,
Delon & Dalcan,
AZ,
Marcia Griffiths,
Junior Murvin,
The Star Department,
Sällskapet,
Absolute Body Control,
8 Eyed Spy,
Reagan Youth,
Steve Hackett,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Monolake,
Khruangbin,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hoover,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Real Kids,
The Victims,
Cameo,
Dawn Penn,
Television,
The Standells,
Quando Quango,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Guru Guru,
Harpers Bizarre,
Siglo XX,
Yellowson,
Colin Newman,
ABC,
Marvin Gaye,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scion,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pylon,
Bobby Womack,
Jeff Mills,
Fifty Foot Hose,
48th St. Collective,
Fela Kuti,
Bootsy Collins,
Wings,
Pierre Henry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ken Boothe,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.