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 Latvia and from Glasgow.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Toni Rubio to the jazz 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Rotary Connection,
Patti Smith,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Vogues,
Aaron Thompson,
Marine Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed,
The Blues Magoos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vladislav Delay,
Morten Harket,
Harmonia,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Skatalites,
Mission of Burma,
ABC,
Stereo Dub,
The Fire Engines,
Mandrill,
The Birthday Party,
the Bar-Kays,
Freddie Wadling,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Flag,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
Funkadelic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Hasil Adkins,
Sugar Minott,
Zapp,
Main Source,
Rites of Spring,
Thompson Twins,
AZ,
Minutemen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minnie Riperton,
Wolf Eyes,
Scan 7,
Icehouse,
Nas,
Davy DMX,
Unrelated Segments,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
DNA,
Inner City,
Lalann,
Little Man,
Newcleus,
Darondo,
Magazine,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Smog,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.