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 Vietnam and from New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Reagan Youth to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Agitation Free,
Joe Smooth,
Pantytec,
The Selecter,
The Moody Blues,
John Coltrane,
Whodini,
Icehouse,
Kas Product,
Lyres,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Skatalites,
The Fuzztones,
Flipper,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scrapy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
L. Decosne,
Todd Terry,
The Pretty Things,
Kerrie Biddell,
Alice Coltrane,
Warsaw,
The Dirtbombs,
Blake Baxter,
Jerry's Kids,
a-ha,
The Human League,
Ponytail,
The Velvet Underground,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
Boredoms,
Todd Rundgren,
New York Dolls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter & Gordon,
Organ,
The Beau Brummels,
Jimmy McGriff,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Green,
Monks,
The Cowsills,
Bush Tetras,
Little Man,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Five Americans,
Fatback Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brick,
The Index,
David McCallum,
the Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shuggie Otis,
Aswad,
Robert Wyatt,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.