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 Mongolia and from Manila.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin 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 Jeru the Damaja to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Faust,
Ornette Coleman,
Little Man,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jacques Brel,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Litter,
Animal Collective,
Barclay James Harvest,
UT,
Can,
F. McDonald,
The Index,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Altered Images,
Flash Fearless,
Nik Kershaw,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gladiators,
Peter and Kerry,
The Pretty Things,
Shoche,
In Retrospect,
Magazine,
Inner City,
Oblivians,
The Modern Lovers,
MC5,
Schoolly D,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Rekid,
Fear,
Sixth Finger,
David McCallum,
Lindisfarne,
Deadbeat,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Main Source,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Skatalites,
The Searchers,
Cybotron,
The Sonics,
Prince Buster,
Davy DMX,
Donny Hathaway,
Stereo Dub,
Neil Young,
Nirvana,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fugazi,
Barbara Tucker,
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.