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 Kazakhstan and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lalo Schifrin to the techno 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Intrusion,
Main Source,
Brothers Johnson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Guru Guru,
Donny Hathaway,
The Moody Blues,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Circle Jerks,
Alison Limerick,
Visage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Q and Not U,
Slave,
Big Daddy Kane,
Max Romeo,
the Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Make Up,
The Dead C,
June Days,
Kool Moe Dee,
Albert Ayler,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Leaves,
Wasted Youth,
48th St. Collective,
Piero Umiliani,
D'Angelo,
DNA,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
World's Most,
Oblivians,
Girls At Our Best!,
David Bowie,
Quadrant,
Babytalk,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
CMW,
Iggy Pop,
Brand Nubian,
The Litter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Laurel Aitken,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sun Ra,
Ice-T,
Simply Red,
The Vogues,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.