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 Panama and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 John Coltrane to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Excepter,
Rotary Connection,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barry Ungar,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slick Rick,
Shoche,
Mission of Burma,
Freddie Wadling,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rapeman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Kinks,
Hot Snakes,
Basic Channel,
Massinfluence,
Gerry Rafferty,
D'Angelo,
Guru Guru,
Porter Ricks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agent Orange,
B.T. Express,
Gregory Isaacs,
Underground Resistance,
The Gap Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Dead C,
the Slits,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sparks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Birthday Party,
Parry Music,
Barclay James Harvest,
Heaven 17,
David McCallum,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Royal Trux,
Lakeside,
Nas,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Saints,
Groovy Waters,
The Mummies,
The Martian,
Cybotron,
Cheater Slicks,
Eurythmics,
Rod Modell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Erasure,
Blancmange,
Nils Olav,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.