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 Sierra Leone and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Move,
Spandau Ballet,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultravox,
Reuben Wilson,
Q65,
Masters at Work,
The Five Americans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
David McCallum,
Khruangbin,
Kerrie Biddell,
Main Source,
Brand Nubian,
The Saints,
Jeru the Damaja,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crime,
Adolescents,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fear,
Lyres,
The Cramps,
The Skatalites,
The Searchers,
Supertramp,
Kenny Larkin,
Niagra,
Nation of Ulysses,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sonic Youth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Basic Channel,
the Swans,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Dolphy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
The Zeros,
Unwound,
Slick Rick,
The Wake,
Ronnie Foster,
Harry Pussy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Human League,
Lungfish,
Erykah Badu,
Massinfluence,
Subhumans,
Dual Sessions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Model 500,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.