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 Bangladesh and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 oboe 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 Curtis Mayfield to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
Boz Scaggs,
Essential Logic,
Hoover,
Newcleus,
Magazine,
Sight & Sound,
Ten City,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Depeche Mode,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
James White and The Blacks,
The Electric Prunes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronnie Foster,
Marcia Griffiths,
The United States of America,
Johnny Osbourne,
Chrome,
Wolf Eyes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fugazi,
David Axelrod,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ken Boothe,
John Foxx,
Robert Wyatt,
Ohio Players,
Brand Nubian,
One Last Wish,
Hardrive,
China Crisis,
Outsiders,
Camouflage,
Yellowson,
Bootsy Collins,
Whodini,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ponytail,
The Seeds,
Main Source,
The Cure,
L. Decosne,
Aural Exciters,
Erasure,
Peter and Kerry,
Morten Harket,
Robert Hood,
Flash Fearless,
Von Mondo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crooked Eye,
The Moleskins,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.