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 Poland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 David Bowie 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 Visage to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fortunes,
Tom Boy,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Real Kids,
The Human League,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Essential Logic,
Hot Snakes,
Vainqueur,
Roger Hodgson,
Idris Muhammad,
Smog,
Television,
The Fuzztones,
Khruangbin,
Sun City Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Royal Trux,
Freddie Wadling,
Soul Sonic Force,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tubeway Army,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kerri Chandler,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deadbeat,
Danielle Patucci,
Nas,
Hardrive,
the Germs,
The Angels of Light,
Flash Fearless,
The Walker Brothers,
Ponytail,
Adolescents,
Kas Product,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Count Five,
Andrew Hill,
Mars,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amon Düül II,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Red Krayola,
Lakeside,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bad Manners,
The Moleskins,
Maurizio,
The Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Magma,
Lyres,
Barry Ungar,
Dorothy Ashby,
Unrelated Segments,
Aloha Tigers,
Deepchord,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.