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 Korea South and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Deakin to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Boz Scaggs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maurizio,
Danielle Patucci,
Loose Ends,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül,
Terry Callier,
Q65,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dead Boys,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eddi Front,
The Beau Brummels,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Electric Prunes,
Yusef Lateef,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pagans,
Davy DMX,
Byron Stingily,
The Dave Clark Five,
Janne Schatter,
The Happenings,
Simply Red,
ABC,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang Starr,
Gregory Isaacs,
Young Marble Giants,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fatback Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Interpol,
Sight & Sound,
Althea and Donna,
The Associates,
Tomorrow,
David Axelrod,
Alice Coltrane,
The Searchers,
Jeff Lynne,
K-Klass,
Bill Wells,
Reagan Youth,
Marvin Gaye,
F. McDonald,
Smog,
World's Most,
Agent Orange,
Television Personalities,
Dorothy Ashby,
JFA,
Barrington Levy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Chris Corsano,
James White and The Blacks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.