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 Jamaica and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Talk Talk to the disco 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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Isaac Hayes,
Kenny Larkin,
Urselle,
Roxette,
The Martian,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Altered Images,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
Malaria!,
Bush Tetras,
Marmalade,
Alton Ellis,
Radio Birdman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Excepter,
The Gap Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Black Moon,
Peter and Kerry,
Quando Quango,
Kas Product,
Reagan Youth,
X-102,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Erykah Badu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
One Last Wish,
The Index,
Junior Murvin,
Adolescents,
Joy Division,
Faust,
Amon Düül,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minutemen,
ABC,
Fugazi,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Knickerbockers,
Japan,
Accadde A,
Maleditus Sound,
Basic Channel,
MDC,
Country Teasers,
The Monochrome Set,
Boz Scaggs,
Dead Boys,
The Evens,
Section 25,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gang Starr,
Con Funk Shun,
Scrapy,
Tommy Roe,
Au Pairs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boredoms,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.