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 Iran and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pole to the disco 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Pantytec,
Howard Jones,
Newcleus,
The Gap Band,
Josef K,
Soft Machine,
X-Ray Spex,
Lucky Dragons,
Althea and Donna,
Wasted Youth,
Visage,
Thee Headcoats,
Suburban Knight,
Swans,
Rites of Spring,
Yaz,
New York Dolls,
Bootsy Collins,
Gichy Dan,
Oneida,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bluetip,
Cecil Taylor,
Roxette,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche,
Whodini,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cal Tjader,
The Count Five,
Magma,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gun Club,
Nick Fraelich,
Minutemen,
Trumans Water,
The J.B.'s,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Blues Magoos,
Joensuu 1685,
Mr. Review,
Yusef Lateef,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funky Four + One,
Simply Red,
Popol Vuh,
Bobby Byrd,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stereo Dub,
Gang Green,
Man Parrish,
Michelle Simonal,
The Flesh Eaters,
The American Breed,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Moebius,
the Bar-Kays,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.