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 Syria and from Mexico City.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Susan Cadogan to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Angels of Light,
ABC,
Sister Nancy,
Zero Boys,
Pussy Galore,
Slave,
Joensuu 1685,
Youth Brigade,
The Smiths,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Schoolly D,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Los Fastidios,
Brick,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cure,
Scott Walker,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Human League,
Pagans,
The Martian,
Buzzcocks,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
Panda Bear,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Lynne,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick May,
Janne Schatter,
Ten City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Dead C,
Depeche Mode,
Connie Case,
Oblivians,
Erykah Badu,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Tremeloes,
Alison Limerick,
MC5,
Godley & Creme,
The Golliwogs,
Faust,
The Motions,
Easy Going,
Talk Talk,
Freddie Wadling,
John Foxx,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yaz,
LL Cool J,
John Cale,
Gang Starr,
Graham Central Station,
Mantronix,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.