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 South Sudan and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 harpsichord 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 The Doobie Brothers 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suicide,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roxy Music,
Eddi Front,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
JFA,
Bronski Beat,
Slave,
Alison Limerick,
Eve St. Jones,
Marine Girls,
Buzzcocks,
Mad Mike,
The Angels of Light,
Supertramp,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Spandau Ballet,
Sound Behaviour,
Banda Bassotti,
Mantronix,
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
Gichy Dan,
The Mummies,
The Busters,
ABBA,
Chrome,
Absolute Body Control,
cv313,
The Gun Club,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terrestrial Tones,
L. Decosne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
June of 44,
B.T. Express,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shuggie Otis,
Fluxion,
Jawbox,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Intrusion,
the Normal,
Wally Richardson,
Section 25,
Roy Ayers,
The Monochrome Set,
Crooked Eye,
Amazonics,
Bluetip,
the Soft Cell,
The Durutti Column,
Rotary Connection,
Sight & Sound,
Cal Tjader,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.