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 Samoa and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kurtis Blow to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cymande,
One Last Wish,
Brothers Johnson,
Scientists,
Todd Terry,
The Barracudas,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fuzztones,
Crooked Eye,
Blake Baxter,
Roxy Music,
the Human League,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Young Rascals,
Can,
Desert Stars,
Zero Boys,
The Smoke,
Simply Red,
Warren Ellis,
The Techniques,
Robert Wyatt,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
Jeff Mills,
X-101,
Erykah Badu,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grey Daturas,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Black Pus,
Peter and Kerry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grandmaster Flash,
Amon Düül II,
the Association,
Eli Mardock,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ludus,
David Bowie,
Yusef Lateef,
the Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
H. Thieme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jacob Miller,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alice Coltrane,
Yaz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gap Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Ronan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Alarm Clocks,
Japan,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.