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 Spain and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Organ to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Jawbox,
The Tremeloes,
DNA,
the Soft Cell,
Todd Terry,
The Grass Roots,
Traffic Nightmare,
Motorama,
Josef K,
New York Dolls,
Model 500,
Das Ding,
Barbara Tucker,
X-102,
Nick Fraelich,
the Slits,
The J.B.'s,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MDC,
Wasted Youth,
Terry Callier,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Absolute Body Control,
MC5,
Minor Threat,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Gladiators,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Babytalk,
Brass Construction,
The Victims,
Eli Mardock,
Aloha Tigers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Saccharine Trust,
Magazine,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
Au Pairs,
Oblivians,
Nik Kershaw,
The Cowsills,
Maurizio,
Suburban Knight,
Main Source,
John Holt,
Pantaleimon,
Scrapy,
David McCallum,
Bob Dylan,
the Bar-Kays,
Roy Ayers,
Rod Modell,
OOIOO,
X-Ray Spex,
Underground Resistance,
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.