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 Iraq and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Philadelphia and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 Kool Moe Dee to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Soul II Soul,
MC5,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quantec,
Suicide,
Duran Duran,
Aural Exciters,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joyce Sims,
Alton Ellis,
Talk Talk,
cv313,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rakim,
T. Rex,
Goldenarms,
the Bar-Kays,
New York Dolls,
Prince Buster,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Saints,
The Selecter,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Angels of Light,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Tremeloes,
Patti Smith,
Fear,
The Techniques,
One Last Wish,
Ohio Players,
Jawbox,
Dawn Penn,
Monks,
Steve Hackett,
Anthony Braxton,
Agent Orange,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang Green,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lalann,
Todd Terry,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Trojans,
the Human League,
Eurythmics,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott Heron,
X-Ray Spex,
Neil Young,
Heaven 17,
Jacques Brel,
Au Pairs,
Sight & Sound,
Rites of Spring,
Bang On A Can,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.