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 Haiti and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb 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 Bobby Sherman to the rap 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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Dead C,
Lower 48,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Bar-Kays,
Al Stewart,
Moby Grape,
The Shadows of Knight,
Byron Stingily,
ABBA,
Neil Young,
Davy DMX,
Anthony Braxton,
Radio Birdman,
Yusef Lateef,
Dual Sessions,
Kayak,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Sonics,
Animal Collective,
Eli Mardock,
Boz Scaggs,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiopuhelimet,
Desert Stars,
Accadde A,
The Pop Group,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pere Ubu,
Vladislav Delay,
Little Man,
Minny Pops,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Standells,
Lou Christie,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mantronix,
Sonny Sharrock,
Circle Jerks,
Aswad,
Kurtis Blow,
Amon Düül,
Angry Samoans,
The Motions,
Pulsallama,
Skriet,
The Saints,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Stooges,
Mandrill,
Deakin,
Index,
The Vogues,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nico,
Sixth Finger,
The Move,
Bluetip,
China Crisis,
Harmonia,
Pussy Galore,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.