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 Germany and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Don Cherry to the rap 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Q65,
Marvin Gaye,
The Mojo Men,
Albert Ayler,
The Black Dice,
Grauzone,
Chris Corsano,
Fluxion,
Lakeside,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mantronix,
Ludus,
Soul II Soul,
Tommy Roe,
The Invisible,
The Sound,
Pagans,
MC5,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joey Negro,
Surgeon,
The Knickerbockers,
Guru Guru,
Skaos,
Bill Near,
Spandau Ballet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Barclay James Harvest,
James White and The Blacks,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tom Boy,
Joe Smooth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Amon Düül II,
The Evens,
Charles Mingus,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wally Richardson,
Maurizio,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eli Mardock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cowsills,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thee Headcoats,
Aswad,
Unwound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Terry Callier,
PIL,
Pere Ubu,
Kerri Chandler,
The Offenders,
Kayak,
Magma,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.