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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter and Kerry to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
This Heat,
Minny Pops,
Funkadelic,
Bill Wells,
Eric Dolphy,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Coltrane,
Idris Muhammad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Can,
Sugar Minott,
a-ha,
DJ Sneak,
U.S. Maple,
Mandrill,
OOIOO,
Yaz,
F. McDonald,
Nick Fraelich,
Zapp,
Loose Ends,
Sonic Youth,
Little Man,
Jerry's Kids,
Peter and Kerry,
Susan Cadogan,
The Gladiators,
Second Layer,
Nils Olav,
The Kinks,
Barrington Levy,
EPMD,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Section 25,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
Alison Limerick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Shuggie Otis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ice-T,
Mo-Dettes,
Lindisfarne,
Television,
The Dead C,
Nirvana,
Fugazi,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spandau Ballet,
Sixth Finger,
Rakim,
Groovy Waters,
Eurythmics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dark Day,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Womack,
Tommy Roe,
The Moody Blues,
MC5,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.