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 Cuba and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Brand Nubian to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crispy Ambulance,
Newcleus,
Au Pairs,
Peter and Kerry,
Moebius,
Gang Gang Dance,
X-101,
Rapeman,
Siglo XX,
The Dirtbombs,
June of 44,
Anakelly,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Germs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cheater Slicks,
The Mojo Men,
The Dead C,
Wings,
Mantronix,
KRS-One,
The Pretty Things,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Silicon Teens,
Quadrant,
Scott Walker,
Joe Smooth,
Yazoo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Letta Mbulu,
Cal Tjader,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Offenders,
The Black Dice,
Crime,
David Bowie,
The Trojans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fat Boys,
Sister Nancy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rites of Spring,
Pussy Galore,
DNA,
In Retrospect,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Searchers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Womack,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Saccharine Trust,
JFA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.