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 Australia and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Minnie Riperton to the crunk 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod 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?
The Motions,
Rapeman,
Slave,
Lebanon Hanover,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
In Retrospect,
Yellowson,
New York Dolls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
a-ha,
The Associates,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Gories,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Raincoats,
Ossler,
Maleditus Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter & Gordon,
Mandrill,
Don Cherry,
Lalann,
Lou Reed,
Moby Grape,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Japan,
Scion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Babytalk,
Pierre Henry,
Lakeside,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Young Marble Giants,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Donald Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ice-T,
The Martian,
The Kinks,
Y Pants,
Terry Callier,
Circle Jerks,
Surgeon,
Unrelated Segments,
Stereo Dub,
Tears for Fears,
The Litter,
Rosa Yemen,
the Normal,
Nils Olav,
Man Eating Sloth,
China Crisis,
Juan Atkins,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Gang Dance,
David Bowie,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.