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 Slovenia and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Glambeats Corp.,
New Order,
The Knickerbockers,
Letta Mbulu,
Liliput,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Fela Kuti,
Don Cherry,
PIL,
Boz Scaggs,
Newcleus,
Alison Limerick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jerry's Kids,
Fugazi,
Minutemen,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Roger Hodgson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jeff Lynne,
Schoolly D,
Eric Copeland,
The Angels of Light,
Yusef Lateef,
Joyce Sims,
The Alarm Clocks,
Average White Band,
Jacques Brel,
Warsaw,
Nico,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Von Mondo,
The Index,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lucky Dragons,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
KRS-One,
Peter & Gordon,
Mars,
Inner City,
The Mojo Men,
Stiv Bators,
Mark Hollis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bang On A Can,
Television,
Nils Olav,
Sam Rivers,
The Blackbyrds,
John Lydon,
Scratch Acid,
Bluetip,
Blancmange,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grey Daturas,
Roy Ayers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.