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 Iceland and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Thee Headcoats to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
Leonard Cohen,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Barrington Levy,
The Victims,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hasil Adkins,
The Grass Roots,
John Holt,
Chris Corsano,
Schoolly D,
Fatback Band,
Prince Buster,
Davy DMX,
Albert Ayler,
Reuben Wilson,
Donny Hathaway,
Buzzcocks,
X-102,
Quantec,
Chris & Cosey,
Nirvana,
The Gories,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nils Olav,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Funky Four + One,
One Last Wish,
Boz Scaggs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Happenings,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Doors,
Tubeway Army,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ronnie Foster,
Alphaville,
Parry Music,
Ronan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camberwell Now,
Steve Hackett,
48th St. Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Rekid,
Danielle Patucci,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bauhaus,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.