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 Romania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Manila and Mexico City.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Tears for Fears to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Sun Ra,
The Move,
Lalo Schifrin,
Reagan Youth,
Index,
Slave,
Scientists,
The Trojans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lower 48,
Scrapy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
EPMD,
Glambeats Corp.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Monochrome Set,
Make Up,
Gabor Szabo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Walker Brothers,
Moby Grape,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sparks,
T. Rex,
Bob Dylan,
Unwound,
Idris Muhammad,
The Evens,
Suicide,
Excepter,
Schoolly D,
Jandek,
Pantaleimon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mark Hollis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camouflage,
Technova,
The New Christs,
Jawbox,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pagans,
Sugar Minott,
X-102,
The Divine Comedy,
Procol Harum,
Fear,
Tommy Roe,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thompson Twins,
Donald Byrd,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Masters at Work,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.