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 Croatia and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Zero Boys to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a sitar 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 mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Lalann,
Groovy Waters,
The Offenders,
Khruangbin,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Supertramp,
Popol Vuh,
Amon Düül,
Von Mondo,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Bar-Kays,
Pantaleimon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Certain Ratio,
Pierre Henry,
Main Source,
Yusef Lateef,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soft Machine,
EPMD,
The Black Dice,
the Association,
Kayak,
the Swans,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
Chris & Cosey,
Idris Muhammad,
Fear,
Moss Icon,
Andrew Hill,
Pantytec,
The Move,
The American Breed,
F. McDonald,
Eli Mardock,
Qualms,
DJ Style,
Swell Maps,
Ken Boothe,
Neu!,
Toni Rubio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Tom Boy,
the Normal,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
China Crisis,
Warsaw,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bang On A Can,
Cybotron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
World's Most,
John Cale,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sparks,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.