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 Switzerland and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Tremeloes to the grunge 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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
the Normal,
Colin Newman,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Los Fastidios,
Mandrill,
Ornette Coleman,
Faust,
The Gun Club,
F. McDonald,
X-Ray Spex,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Negative Approach,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Hood,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
In Retrospect,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Model 500,
Stiv Bators,
Mad Mike,
Pylon,
The Associates,
Godley & Creme,
The Selecter,
Mission of Burma,
The Raincoats,
Surgeon,
Rotary Connection,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Toasters,
Bobby Sherman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sun Ra,
Essential Logic,
Gang Starr,
Eddi Front,
Alton Ellis,
Jimmy McGriff,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lindisfarne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nas,
Pulsallama,
The Gories,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Wyatt,
Moss Icon,
Grey Daturas,
Cheater Slicks,
Massinfluence,
CMW,
The Offenders,
The Evens,
The Cure,
Flash Fearless,
Fluxion,
The Walker Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.