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 Sudan and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crime to the funk 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dark Day,
Heaven 17,
Little Man,
Scan 7,
Kurtis Blow,
The Mummies,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Von Mondo,
Janne Schatter,
R.M.O.,
Eve St. Jones,
Tubeway Army,
Rufus Thomas,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Liliput,
Mary Jane Girls,
Excepter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The New Christs,
Derrick Morgan,
The Alarm Clocks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Neu!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terry Callier,
Archie Shepp,
Matthew Halsall,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Marvin Gaye,
Guru Guru,
Marcia Griffiths,
Unwound,
The Golliwogs,
Stetsasonic,
Outsiders,
Maurizio,
Alphaville,
Amon Düül,
the Bar-Kays,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Popol Vuh,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Black Moon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Busters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cybotron,
Gerry Rafferty,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rakim,
Duran Duran,
Parry Music,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Seeds,
Carl Craig,
Amon Düül II,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.