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 New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Doobie Brothers to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Blake Baxter,
Public Enemy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lou Reed,
Nico,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
Fatback Band,
The Busters,
Pylon,
Porter Ricks,
New Order,
Pole,
Jeff Lynne,
The Blackbyrds,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cowsills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
10cc,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Deakin,
Visage,
Little Man,
Tommy Roe,
Bronski Beat,
Erykah Badu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Technova,
OOIOO,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lucky Dragons,
Grauzone,
Simply Red,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Zeros,
The Dead C,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fortunes,
Yusef Lateef,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Organ,
The Motions,
Hot Snakes,
Joyce Sims,
Negative Approach,
Minny Pops,
Pantaleimon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Can,
Sugar Minott,
Bauhaus,
Aswad,
Cheater Slicks,
Niagra,
Hasil Adkins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.