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 Croatia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joe Finger,
Matthew Halsall,
Animal Collective,
Ronan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Franke,
Qualms,
a-ha,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Swell Maps,
Alphaville,
The Flesh Eaters,
Drexciya,
Silicon Teens,
Panda Bear,
48th St. Collective,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fugazi,
The Remains,
The Skatalites,
Gong,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Los Fastidios,
Nik Kershaw,
Underground Resistance,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roxette,
MDC,
Skaos,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Modern Lovers,
Wings,
Barrington Levy,
the Bar-Kays,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Vogues,
Reuben Wilson,
E-Dancer,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gichy Dan,
Bob Dylan,
The Cowsills,
Pagans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
These Immortal Souls,
Brass Construction,
The Birthday Party,
Intrusion,
Jawbox,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nick Fraelich,
Max Romeo,
D'Angelo,
T. Rex,
Sun Ra,
Minny Pops,
The Selecter,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.