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 Ivory Coast and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar 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 Kerrie Biddell to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
The Moleskins,
The Moody Blues,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bronski Beat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mad Mike,
Aaron Thompson,
The Associates,
Altered Images,
The Five Americans,
Television,
KRS-One,
Japan,
Gang of Four,
the Association,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cal Tjader,
Al Stewart,
Eden Ahbez,
the Slits,
Jandek,
Quadrant,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Piero Umiliani,
The Move,
China Crisis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nico,
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Offenders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stereo Dub,
The Blackbyrds,
Cameo,
Symarip,
The Red Krayola,
John Foxx,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Cale,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Outsiders,
Newcleus,
Leonard Cohen,
The Black Dice,
Sex Pistols,
Rufus Thomas,
Toni Rubio,
Fat Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Nik Kershaw,
Swell Maps,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter and Kerry,
Yaz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Electric Prunes,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.