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 Papua New Guinea and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Amon Düül,
Erasure,
Terry Callier,
Anakelly,
Unrelated Segments,
Agitation Free,
Lucky Dragons,
Sonny Sharrock,
Circle Jerks,
Sonic Youth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Goldenarms,
Peter and Kerry,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Arcadia,
Albert Ayler,
Joy Division,
Nirvana,
Blancmange,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aswad,
Roxette,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Görl,
Dawn Penn,
Jawbox,
Khruangbin,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
The Raincoats,
The Associates,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Can,
Junior Murvin,
H. Thieme,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Audionom,
Lou Reed,
Bad Manners,
Severed Heads,
The Fortunes,
Zero Boys,
Ten City,
Lightning Bolt,
CMW,
Gerry Rafferty,
UT,
Q and Not U,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minutemen,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Piero Umiliani,
Minnie Riperton,
Absolute Body Control,
Bang On A Can,
The Electric Prunes,
Bob Dylan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.