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 Guatemala and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
Man Parrish,
Au Pairs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Slackers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Pus,
Clear Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Model 500,
Pagans,
Jeff Lynne,
Joe Smooth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DNA,
Bobby Byrd,
Mandrill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
MDC,
Lalann,
Erykah Badu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Litter,
Brick,
Infiniti,
Bobby Womack,
Alison Limerick,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Saints,
EPMD,
Ohio Players,
Von Mondo,
E-Dancer,
The Smoke,
10cc,
Trumans Water,
Surgeon,
New Age Steppers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric Dolphy,
The Divine Comedy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eurythmics,
Dead Boys,
Babytalk,
Sun City Girls,
Index,
Inner City,
Los Fastidios,
the Association,
Massinfluence,
Warren Ellis,
CMW,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Symarip,
Lou Christie,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.