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 Spain and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 arpeggiator 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 Half Japanese 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rufus Thomas,
Loose Ends,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rekid,
Black Moon,
Jawbox,
The Angels of Light,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Birthday Party,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jacques Brel,
Stereo Dub,
ABBA,
Prince Buster,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Holt,
Johnny Clarke,
Ronan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Hardrive,
The Durutti Column,
AZ,
Royal Trux,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Minutemen,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Moody Blues,
Bluetip,
Lucky Dragons,
The Blues Magoos,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
World's Most,
Black Bananas,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Golliwogs,
Joe Finger,
Monks,
The Buckinghams,
Derrick Morgan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lou Reed,
Rosa Yemen,
Robert Hood,
The Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Goldenarms,
Nico,
Grey Daturas,
Sarah Menescal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Dolphy,
Unrelated Segments,
UT,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.