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 Tonga and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cal Tjader to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rod Modell,
Alton Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
The Sonics,
Lindisfarne,
Cluster,
Max Romeo,
Radiohead,
Delon & Dalcan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Silicon Teens,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Spoonie Gee,
Arcadia,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalo Schifrin,
Q65,
Shoche,
The Techniques,
L. Decosne,
Donald Byrd,
Agitation Free,
UT,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Organ,
Radiopuhelimet,
Y Pants,
Siglo XX,
Nas,
Roxette,
Oneida,
Andrew Hill,
The New Christs,
Joensuu 1685,
Shuggie Otis,
One Last Wish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Index,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Slackers,
The United States of America,
Niagra,
Babytalk,
Interpol,
Lalann,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bad Manners,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pole,
Fela Kuti,
Monks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
Glenn Branca,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.