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 Germany and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Arcadia to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Nils Olav,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Vladislav Delay,
Schoolly D,
Barrington Levy,
Aswad,
Roy Ayers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Matthew Bourne,
The Modern Lovers,
The Litter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Donald Byrd,
Cluster,
Half Japanese,
Lalann,
Throbbing Gristle,
Charles Mingus,
Camberwell Now,
Gang Green,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
The Count Five,
Spoonie Gee,
The Index,
Lalo Schifrin,
Suburban Knight,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Electric Prunes,
Crooked Eye,
Sunsets and Hearts,
David Bowie,
Rod Modell,
Pantaleimon,
The Vogues,
The Grass Roots,
The Toasters,
Aural Exciters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Niagra,
The Stooges,
Arcadia,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Subhumans,
Sällskapet,
Brothers Johnson,
the Human League,
Sight & Sound,
The Fall,
The Young Rascals,
Arab on Radar,
Thee Headcoats,
Visage,
Oblivians,
Kayak,
Marmalade,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.