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 Korea South and from New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Skaos,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bluetip,
Aswad,
This Heat,
The Fuzztones,
Liliput,
Black Pus,
Loose Ends,
Gang Green,
Yusef Lateef,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brass Construction,
Idris Muhammad,
Neil Young,
The Move,
Little Man,
Jerry's Kids,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Los Fastidios,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lightning Bolt,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sonic Youth,
Marmalade,
Skarface,
a-ha,
U.S. Maple,
Eddi Front,
Eden Ahbez,
Television,
Heaven 17,
June of 44,
Cameo,
Popol Vuh,
Stereo Dub,
Scratch Acid,
Magma,
Con Funk Shun,
Infiniti,
Rod Modell,
Stetsasonic,
Niagra,
Wasted Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nico,
Pet Shop Boys,
Clear Light,
Donny Hathaway,
Rekid,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Alison Limerick,
DNA,
Erasure,
Johnny Clarke,
The Raincoats,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.