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 Bahrain and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grauzone,
Judy Mowatt,
Connie Case,
Oneida,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Whodini,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television,
Wire,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris & Cosey,
Eurythmics,
cv313,
Alton Ellis,
Piero Umiliani,
Bob Dylan,
The Grass Roots,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cal Tjader,
Marmalade,
Underground Resistance,
Faust,
Cluster,
Tom Boy,
Yazoo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
X-101,
A Certain Ratio,
F. McDonald,
Kerrie Biddell,
Amazonics,
The Stooges,
Eddi Front,
Blossom Toes,
Zero Boys,
The Slackers,
Chris Corsano,
Michelle Simonal,
Minor Threat,
The United States of America,
The Slits,
The Durutti Column,
Visage,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Smog,
Monolake,
Moss Icon,
Hoover,
Interpol,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Talk Talk,
The Count Five,
Skaos,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.