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 Thailand and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sight & Sound to the grunge 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Aloha Tigers,
T.S.O.L.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fad Gadget,
The Trojans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gabor Szabo,
Alice Coltrane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Maurizio,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Laurel Aitken,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
The Selecter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nico,
Bobby Womack,
Marshall Jefferson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Todd Terry,
UT,
Bluetip,
Janne Schatter,
Scion,
ABC,
Sugar Minott,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Depeche Mode,
Radiopuhelimet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roger Hodgson,
Outsiders,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Wasted Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Matthew Halsall,
Sarah Menescal,
Eden Ahbez,
Quando Quango,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABBA,
Trumans Water,
Marc Almond,
Roxette,
Zapp,
Peter & Gordon,
Slick Rick,
The Young Rascals,
Wings,
Angry Samoans,
Guru Guru,
Adolescents,
Monks,
The Mummies,
Duran Duran,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.