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 Ethiopia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 John Cale to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fall,
The Human League,
Guru Guru,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hardrive,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Young Rascals,
The Invisible,
Bang On A Can,
Altered Images,
The Dead C,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Offenders,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scientists,
The Pop Group,
Al Stewart,
Siglo XX,
Dennis Brown,
The Cure,
Black Moon,
Nico,
The Moody Blues,
The Monochrome Set,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fugazi,
Drexciya,
One Last Wish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Amon Düül,
Graham Central Station,
Morten Harket,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Toasters,
Newcleus,
The J.B.'s,
Kool Moe Dee,
Spandau Ballet,
Moebius,
Alison Limerick,
Can,
The Happenings,
L. Decosne,
The Modern Lovers,
The Slits,
Youth Brigade,
Bizarre Inc.,
New Order,
Faraquet,
Harry Pussy,
R.M.O.,
The Beau Brummels,
Minutemen,
Derrick May,
Buzzcocks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Reagan Youth,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.