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 Saudi Arabia and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Section 25,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moebius,
Lou Reed,
Deakin,
The Human League,
Porter Ricks,
The Saints,
Junior Murvin,
The Seeds,
Babytalk,
Camberwell Now,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Byron Stingily,
T.S.O.L.,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Young Rascals,
KRS-One,
Eli Mardock,
Von Mondo,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Happenings,
Audionom,
Jerry's Kids,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Womack,
Pharoah Sanders,
Amon Düül,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eurythmics,
Model 500,
Nation of Ulysses,
June Days,
Piero Umiliani,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crooked Eye,
One Last Wish,
Minnie Riperton,
Crispian St. Peters,
Charles Mingus,
Silicon Teens,
Flipper,
Motorama,
Maleditus Sound,
Rapeman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anakelly,
Patti Smith,
Sugar Minott,
Bill Wells,
Average White Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Echospace,
Fatback Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.