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 Kuwait and from Salvador.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet 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 KRS-One to the grime 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Monolake,
The New Christs,
Average White Band,
Avey Tare,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sällskapet,
Joyce Sims,
Donny Hathaway,
Supertramp,
Pantytec,
New Age Steppers,
Rapeman,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Public Enemy,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Swans,
Moebius,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Schoolly D,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Depeche Mode,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Angels of Light,
Mantronix,
Minny Pops,
The Gap Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Swell Maps,
OOIOO,
The Fuzztones,
The Cure,
The Invisible,
Toni Rubio,
The Names,
Wasted Youth,
48th St. Collective,
Animal Collective,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Evens,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Easy Going,
The Real Kids,
cv313,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Music Machine,
Ronnie Foster,
X-102,
The Remains,
Aswad,
Steve Hackett,
Amazonics,
The Mummies,
Sex Pistols,
The Beau Brummels,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.