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 Sierra Leone and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Toasters to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Avey Tare,
Man Eating Sloth,
Excepter,
Oneida,
The Sonics,
Qualms,
DJ Style,
the Human League,
Tommy Roe,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Tremeloes,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Five Americans,
Camouflage,
Eurythmics,
Outsiders,
Goldenarms,
The Count Five,
Neil Young,
Buzzcocks,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gichy Dan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
OOIOO,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Von Mondo,
Alphaville,
Infiniti,
Mad Mike,
Rakim,
Magazine,
In Retrospect,
Wire,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sällskapet,
The Standells,
David McCallum,
The Happenings,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
H. Thieme,
The Raincoats,
Tim Buckley,
The Knickerbockers,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Christie,
Hardrive,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Skarface,
Scan 7,
Simply Red,
CMW,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Starr,
The Smoke,
These Immortal Souls,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.