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 Paraguay and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Halifax.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bill Near to the rap 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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Essential Logic,
Bronski Beat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
John Coltrane,
Bush Tetras,
Eddi Front,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pere Ubu,
The Velvet Underground,
Joy Division,
The Grass Roots,
Amon Düül,
Amazonics,
E-Dancer,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young,
Depeche Mode,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Human League,
ABBA,
The Mojo Men,
Tropical Tobacco,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yusef Lateef,
The Trojans,
John Holt,
The Slits,
Drexciya,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Pole,
Shuggie Otis,
One Last Wish,
Judy Mowatt,
Wings,
The Zeros,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Divine Comedy,
Quando Quango,
Nas,
Gong,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Organ,
Wasted Youth,
MC5,
Soul Sonic Force,
Todd Terry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rapeman,
Maurizio,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Litter,
Magma,
Niagra,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.