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 Albania and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ 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 Minny Pops to the crunk 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Mo-Dettes,
Grey Daturas,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arab on Radar,
Funkadelic,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Blues Magoos,
Marmalade,
Fluxion,
DJ Sneak,
Derrick Morgan,
Camouflage,
Shuggie Otis,
Glenn Branca,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Morten Harket,
The Gun Club,
T. Rex,
Procol Harum,
Gang of Four,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amazonics,
Surgeon,
The Barracudas,
Fugazi,
Joe Finger,
Wings,
Moss Icon,
Animal Collective,
David McCallum,
The Velvet Underground,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Man Parrish,
Sparks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Duran Duran,
Symarip,
Minutemen,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Faraquet,
Talk Talk,
Adolescents,
Slave,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crash Course in Science,
the Soft Cell,
Joensuu 1685,
Amon Düül II,
Barbara Tucker,
MDC,
Charles Mingus,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Machine,
John Lydon,
Rufus Thomas,
Robert Wyatt,
The Smiths,
The Star Department,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.