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 Trinidad & Tobago and from London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kenny Larkin to the crunk 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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Siglo XX,
Television Personalities,
Fat Boys,
L. Decosne,
Jacques Brel,
Blossom Toes,
K-Klass,
Porter Ricks,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül II,
UT,
Khruangbin,
Mandrill,
Con Funk Shun,
The Real Kids,
Toni Rubio,
the Sonics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Barracudas,
Shuggie Otis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sandy B,
Marcia Griffiths,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Young Marble Giants,
Guru Guru,
Faraquet,
Scan 7,
LL Cool J,
R.M.O.,
Sarah Menescal,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Star Department,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gladiators,
Oblivians,
Sister Nancy,
Jawbox,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
EPMD,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry's Kids,
Grey Daturas,
Sugar Minott,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
Cymande,
Wolf Eyes,
The Stooges,
Bobby Byrd,
Accadde A,
FM Einheit,
The Detroit Cobras,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.