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 Estonia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tom Boy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crash Course in Science,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rapeman,
Rakim,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television Personalities,
Severed Heads,
a-ha,
The Gladiators,
The Five Americans,
Cal Tjader,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Detroit Cobras,
Blossom Toes,
Arthur Verocai,
Bill Near,
Los Fastidios,
Harmonia,
Carl Craig,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ossler,
Scientists,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rod Modell,
Yazoo,
Popol Vuh,
8 Eyed Spy,
Swell Maps,
Oblivians,
Unwound,
Roy Ayers,
Shuggie Otis,
Brass Construction,
Hoover,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Howard Jones,
The Sonics,
Ultra Naté,
Adolescents,
Brand Nubian,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultimate Spinach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
ABBA,
China Crisis,
Mandrill,
The Residents,
Pantaleimon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pussy Galore,
Kas Product,
Avey Tare,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rufus Thomas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.