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 Paraguay and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Marvin Gaye to the jazz 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alton Ellis,
Flash Fearless,
Soulsonic Force,
The Walker Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wally Richardson,
Lakeside,
China Crisis,
Sun Ra,
Sarah Menescal,
Ronan,
Peter and Kerry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deakin,
Monolake,
Aswad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Blake Baxter,
The Last Poets,
Nico,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fugs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Half Japanese,
JFA,
Deadbeat,
the Association,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yaz,
U.S. Maple,
Nils Olav,
James White and The Blacks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erasure,
Henry Cow,
Suburban Knight,
Warsaw,
Warren Ellis,
Matthew Bourne,
Excepter,
Avey Tare,
Minutemen,
Mission of Burma,
Anthony Braxton,
Ronnie Foster,
Heaven 17,
June of 44,
Ituana,
Massinfluence,
Khruangbin,
David Bowie,
The Electric Prunes,
Boredoms,
T. Rex,
Intrusion,
Gichy Dan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Agitation Free,
Boz Scaggs,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.