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 Dominica and from New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mary Jane Girls to the crunk 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne 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 '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 Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sun City Girls,
Archie Shepp,
Aloha Tigers,
The Grass Roots,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skarface,
Camberwell Now,
Black Pus,
Urselle,
Y Pants,
Interpol,
Youth Brigade,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sound,
New York Dolls,
Alphaville,
The Smoke,
Charles Mingus,
Lee Hazlewood,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Byron Stingily,
The Fugs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mantronix,
Neil Young,
Gichy Dan,
Q and Not U,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hasil Adkins,
Trumans Water,
Junior Murvin,
Black Flag,
Scratch Acid,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Modern Lovers,
Nas,
Television,
Anthony Braxton,
Ten City,
Albert Ayler,
Kurtis Blow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soft Machine,
Howard Jones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gong,
Minor Threat,
The Real Kids,
Joyce Sims,
Kevin Saunderson,
ABBA,
Flamin' Groovies,
Babytalk,
The Velvet Underground,
The Tremeloes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eurythmics,
The Fuzztones,
Freddie Wadling,
In Retrospect,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.