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 Armenia and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Pylon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Normal. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kaleidoscope,
The Count Five,
The Young Rascals,
Nik Kershaw,
The Real Kids,
The Cramps,
The Gap Band,
the Soft Cell,
Sugar Minott,
Country Teasers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mary Jane Girls,
Adolescents,
Cal Tjader,
Pere Ubu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jacques Brel,
Hardrive,
Mandrill,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Faraquet,
MC5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bob Dylan,
Aloha Tigers,
Vladislav Delay,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Roxy Music,
Joe Finger,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Leaves,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Angels of Light,
Ten City,
Moss Icon,
Motorama,
This Heat,
Qualms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tommy Roe,
Cecil Taylor,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lyres,
Magma,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Main Source,
Erasure,
David Axelrod,
L. Decosne,
PIL,
Altered Images,
Metal Thangz,
Spoonie Gee,
Sandy B,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Essential Logic,
10cc,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.