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 Canada and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar 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 Quantec to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Average White Band,
The Moody Blues,
Ludus,
Con Funk Shun,
Boogie Down Productions,
Unrelated Segments,
Althea and Donna,
Radiohead,
Brick,
Infiniti,
Kurtis Blow,
48th St. Collective,
The Music Machine,
Model 500,
Hashim,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Babytalk,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New Age Steppers,
X-101,
Tubeway Army,
Mad Mike,
Cheater Slicks,
Q and Not U,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Shuggie Otis,
The Velvet Underground,
Bad Manners,
Reuben Wilson,
Minny Pops,
Peter & Gordon,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ice-T,
Ronnie Foster,
Toni Rubio,
X-Ray Spex,
Motorama,
The Beau Brummels,
Severed Heads,
Alphaville,
Nation of Ulysses,
Public Enemy,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Blues Magoos,
Alice Coltrane,
La Düsseldorf,
Amon Düül,
Oblivians,
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Curtis Mayfield,
KRS-One,
Andrew Hill,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joe Finger,
Barbara Tucker,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.