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 Iran and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Simply Red 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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
The Skatalites,
Sandy B,
Cybotron,
Tim Buckley,
The Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
DJ Style,
Gong,
Sonic Youth,
Johnny Osbourne,
Shoche,
The Evens,
Accadde A,
Johnny Clarke,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers,
The Toasters,
Prince Buster,
Iggy Pop,
Hardrive,
Alison Limerick,
Barrington Levy,
Masters at Work,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ituana,
John Cale,
Faust,
Guru Guru,
Eric Dolphy,
Crooked Eye,
Radiohead,
X-101,
The Misunderstood,
The Moody Blues,
The Blues Magoos,
Little Man,
The Star Department,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Victims,
Marine Girls,
L. Decosne,
Sound Behaviour,
Subhumans,
Sugar Minott,
Mad Mike,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Grandmaster Flash,
David McCallum,
Tres Demented,
The Motions,
Goldenarms,
Blake Baxter,
Joey Negro,
Yaz,
Terry Callier,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.