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 Cape Verde and from Bologna.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Curtis Mayfield to the electroclash 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 Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Underground Resistance,
Masters at Work,
Goldenarms,
The Durutti Column,
Wasted Youth,
Junior Murvin,
EPMD,
The Star Department,
Kayak,
Lungfish,
Khruangbin,
Chris Corsano,
Negative Approach,
Brand Nubian,
Trumans Water,
Technova,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Panda Bear,
Hasil Adkins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Drive Like Jehu,
Soulsonic Force,
The Human League,
Mark Hollis,
The Offenders,
Godley & Creme,
Make Up,
Radiohead,
Johnny Clarke,
Brass Construction,
Sugar Minott,
Deakin,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fuzztones,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Sparks,
Todd Terry,
Wings,
Reagan Youth,
Symarip,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Max Romeo,
Wally Richardson,
Pere Ubu,
Wolf Eyes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Real Kids,
Yaz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Blake Baxter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobby Byrd,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Invisible,
John Lydon,
Cluster,
Eden Ahbez,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.