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 Belize and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Al Stewart to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Livin' Joy,
Fatback Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Buckinghams,
Iggy Pop,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobby Byrd,
Sun Ra,
Crash Course in Science,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Normal,
Gong,
Gang Green,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Foxx,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brothers Johnson,
The Human League,
Tres Demented,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
Darondo,
The Dirtbombs,
Lower 48,
These Immortal Souls,
Joey Negro,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Names,
Bill Near,
Audionom,
Depeche Mode,
The Busters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cheater Slicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Remains,
Lindisfarne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scrapy,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Vogues,
Fort Wilson Riot,
cv313,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Starr,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Doors,
The Grass Roots,
Lungfish,
Yazoo,
Lucky Dragons,
Average White Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Icehouse,
Sugar Minott,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.