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 Madagascar and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer 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 Jawbox to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
June of 44,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moebius,
H. Thieme,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radiohead,
Todd Rundgren,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gap Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Funkadelic,
Yazoo,
Peter & Gordon,
The Slits,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Motorama,
Niagra,
Eurythmics,
Maurizio,
The Electric Prunes,
Nik Kershaw,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slave,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Zero Boys,
the Association,
Kayak,
Neil Young,
Electric Prunes,
Bluetip,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pantytec,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Cheater Slicks,
Easy Going,
EPMD,
Darondo,
Franke,
Cybotron,
Swans,
Second Layer,
Mission of Burma,
The Invisible,
Pole,
Pharoah Sanders,
Colin Newman,
Althea and Donna,
Rites of Spring,
Moby Grape,
The Neon Judgement,
Lightning Bolt,
Sällskapet,
Jesper Dahlback,
One Last Wish,
Stetsasonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.