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 Argentina and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ossler to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Laurel Aitken,
Jawbox,
The Doobie Brothers,
EPMD,
The Five Americans,
The Moody Blues,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Susan Cadogan,
The Invisible,
The American Breed,
the Bar-Kays,
Wire,
Make Up,
the Sonics,
AZ,
The Young Rascals,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Basic Channel,
Accadde A,
David Bowie,
Delta 5,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Jesper Dahlback,
Al Stewart,
Glenn Branca,
The Blues Magoos,
Ituana,
John Cale,
Marine Girls,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monks,
Hardrive,
Tommy Roe,
Sparks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Crime,
Jandek,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Carl Craig,
Tears for Fears,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
Jeff Lynne,
Rakim,
Vainqueur,
The Smiths,
UT,
The J.B.'s,
Goldenarms,
Colin Newman,
Soulsonic Force,
Essential Logic,
The Victims,
Kevin Saunderson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Matthew Bourne,
Joensuu 1685,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.