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 South Sudan and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Doobie Brothers to the disco 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Lakeside,
Popol Vuh,
Boredoms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neu!,
Aswad,
Minny Pops,
Brothers Johnson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alphaville,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marmalade,
Depeche Mode,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Delta 5,
T. Rex,
The Barracudas,
Derrick May,
Rekid,
Tom Boy,
Jacob Miller,
The J.B.'s,
Sam Rivers,
Rosa Yemen,
Piero Umiliani,
Interpol,
Television,
Brand Nubian,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nirvana,
Barbara Tucker,
The Birthday Party,
Idris Muhammad,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Residents,
The Monochrome Set,
The Invisible,
Al Stewart,
48th St. Collective,
Dead Boys,
Loose Ends,
Con Funk Shun,
Maurizio,
the Soft Cell,
The Black Dice,
Tommy Roe,
Danielle Patucci,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Swell Maps,
Anakelly,
Ice-T,
Arcadia,
The Standells,
The Saints,
Sparks,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.