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 Algeria and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Divine Comedy to the rap 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Index,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Görl,
The Vogues,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Agitation Free,
The Shadows of Knight,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Maurizio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ossler,
Swell Maps,
Mars,
Lower 48,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blackbyrds,
Tubeway Army,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sarah Menescal,
Toni Rubio,
Saccharine Trust,
John Foxx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sugar Minott,
The Velvet Underground,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kurtis Blow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Junior Murvin,
Black Flag,
Essential Logic,
Half Japanese,
Chrome,
The Misunderstood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
Pierre Henry,
Make Up,
the Normal,
The Selecter,
The Durutti Column,
Clear Light,
Michelle Simonal,
KRS-One,
Anthony Braxton,
A Flock of Seagulls,
MDC,
Glenn Branca,
Cymande,
Black Sheep,
The Cramps,
Grauzone,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.