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 Ukraine and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Gerry Rafferty to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultravox,
Alton Ellis,
Rites of Spring,
Visage,
Kenny Larkin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Leonard Cohen,
The Remains,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Fraelich,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Depeche Mode,
the Human League,
MDC,
La Düsseldorf,
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
Rhythm & Sound,
ABBA,
Japan,
Tommy Roe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Drexciya,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fat Boys,
Suburban Knight,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Patti Smith,
Khruangbin,
Fela Kuti,
Charles Mingus,
Delta 5,
Camberwell Now,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
KRS-One,
Eurythmics,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Sherman,
Godley & Creme,
Quando Quango,
Hasil Adkins,
Flamin' Groovies,
Derrick May,
Wally Richardson,
Moss Icon,
Pierre Henry,
Erasure,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vladislav Delay,
The Music Machine,
The New Christs,
The Gap Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Robert Görl,
The Evens,
Black Sheep,
Aaron Thompson,
Au Pairs,
Warsaw,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.