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 South Sudan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 MDC to the rap 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Roxy Music,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Brick,
MDC,
Infiniti,
The Smoke,
Smog,
Todd Rundgren,
Mission of Burma,
Jeff Lynne,
Drexciya,
The Music Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Vladislav Delay,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T. Rex,
Donald Byrd,
Zero Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Byron Stingily,
Quando Quango,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jacques Brel,
Wolf Eyes,
Von Mondo,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Beau Brummels,
John Cale,
Gastr Del Sol,
Urselle,
Groovy Waters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Chris Corsano,
The Mummies,
Junior Murvin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flipper,
The Count Five,
Das Ding,
Thee Headcoats,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
Jerry's Kids,
Fat Boys,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Sonics,
Connie Case,
Second Layer,
Colin Newman,
Procol Harum,
The Happenings,
Sight & Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
Donny Hathaway,
Erasure,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
KRS-One,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fugazi,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.