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 Bahamas and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Swans,
Max Romeo,
Quando Quango,
Cameo,
Nas,
The Red Krayola,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Young Rascals,
The Wake,
Rakim,
Yellowson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dead Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Idris Muhammad,
Cecil Taylor,
New Order,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
This Heat,
The Mummies,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
X-Ray Spex,
Procol Harum,
Talk Talk,
Big Daddy Kane,
Vainqueur,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Rekid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moody Blues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Wyatt,
Infiniti,
The Velvet Underground,
The Shadows of Knight,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sam Rivers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jesper Dahlback,
Essential Logic,
K-Klass,
Country Joe & The Fish,
kango's stein massive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Davy DMX,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
T.S.O.L.,
10cc,
Sällskapet,
Jeff Lynne,
the Sonics,
Country Teasers,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.