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 Belgium and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jandek to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Harmonia,
Camouflage,
The Blackbyrds,
Eden Ahbez,
The Monochrome Set,
Skaos,
Stockholm Monsters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Y Pants,
Chris Corsano,
Unrelated Segments,
Section 25,
Intrusion,
T. Rex,
Kevin Saunderson,
Susan Cadogan,
Heaven 17,
Rotary Connection,
Sound Behaviour,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Archie Shepp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Negative Approach,
Wire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Idris Muhammad,
John Cale,
MDC,
The Fall,
Robert Wyatt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Doors,
Rufus Thomas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ohio Players,
Soulsonic Force,
Toni Rubio,
Metal Thangz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Alison Limerick,
Gabor Szabo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Suburban Knight,
Sex Pistols,
Fear,
Delta 5,
Soft Machine,
David Axelrod,
Parry Music,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
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Byron Stingily,
Piero Umiliani,
Brand Nubian,
Kerri Chandler,
Outsiders,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.