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 Uganda and from Lagos.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eden Ahbez to the dance 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
The Angels of Light,
Arcadia,
Motorama,
The Names,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rod Modell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cal Tjader,
Scan 7,
Dawn Penn,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fear,
Sixth Finger,
Monolake,
John Holt,
Goldenarms,
Das Ding,
Siglo XX,
Bronski Beat,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Womack,
Alice Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grauzone,
Monks,
Michelle Simonal,
Donny Hathaway,
Alison Limerick,
Magma,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quantec,
Lebanon Hanover,
T.S.O.L.,
Stockholm Monsters,
kango's stein massive,
the Soft Cell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Panda Bear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boz Scaggs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ice-T,
Camouflage,
Fluxion,
The Invisible,
Zapp,
Jerry's Kids,
Joyce Sims,
Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
Banda Bassotti,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alton Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.