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 Ireland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Ken Boothe to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Funky Four + One,
Gang of Four,
Idris Muhammad,
The Invisible,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Moby Grape,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yellowson,
Archie Shepp,
Sixth Finger,
Quadrant,
John Holt,
Black Bananas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Index,
Livin' Joy,
Sun City Girls,
Roxette,
The Searchers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bauhaus,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Panda Bear,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
June of 44,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Style,
the Human League,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sun Ra,
Young Marble Giants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Starr,
La Düsseldorf,
Joyce Sims,
Arab on Radar,
UT,
Gichy Dan,
Monks,
Dark Day,
Sam Rivers,
The Busters,
The Count Five,
Zero Boys,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cramps,
Sound Behaviour,
Country Teasers,
Pagans,
Supertramp,
B.T. Express,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Golliwogs,
Von Mondo,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.