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 Australia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sixth Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Stetsasonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Monochrome Set,
Letta Mbulu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Zero Boys,
Nils Olav,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Khruangbin,
Sparks,
The Golliwogs,
Man Parrish,
Hardrive,
Shuggie Otis,
The Last Poets,
Little Man,
The Slits,
Mary Jane Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lalann,
Fugazi,
Fatback Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Minnie Riperton,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cure,
Technova,
Janne Schatter,
Joe Finger,
Suburban Knight,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Doors,
Bob Dylan,
Kurtis Blow,
Kerri Chandler,
kango's stein massive,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Chris Corsano,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kenny Larkin,
Second Layer,
Bad Manners,
Spoonie Gee,
Arthur Verocai,
Morten Harket,
John Coltrane,
Urselle,
Ornette Coleman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Happenings,
Panda Bear,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.