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 Slovenia and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Hashim to the crunk 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
FM Einheit,
Aural Exciters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tears for Fears,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Saints,
The Count Five,
Bobby Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Cramps,
Leonard Cohen,
Qualms,
Al Stewart,
Lower 48,
This Heat,
Unwound,
Eurythmics,
Massinfluence,
Chris Corsano,
Bronski Beat,
The Names,
OOIOO,
Brass Construction,
Jacob Miller,
Arcadia,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Lydon,
Scratch Acid,
Duran Duran,
Neu!,
Slave,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
B.T. Express,
Q65,
The Star Department,
Quadrant,
Franke,
Avey Tare,
Eric Dolphy,
Judy Mowatt,
Dennis Brown,
Silicon Teens,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Moebius,
Nick Fraelich,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marmalade,
Ponytail,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wally Richardson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Spoonie Gee,
The Modern Lovers,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.