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 Taiwan and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Cluster to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Matthew Halsall,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chrome,
Crash Course in Science,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Warsaw,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sparks,
Peter & Gordon,
John Foxx,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Smoke,
Harmonia,
Swell Maps,
The Leaves,
Lakeside,
The Walker Brothers,
Fear,
The Young Rascals,
Stereo Dub,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lindisfarne,
The Doors,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Suburban Knight,
Pierre Henry,
Monolake,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nick Fraelich,
Absolute Body Control,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Desert Stars,
AZ,
Joyce Sims,
Outsiders,
Essential Logic,
Panda Bear,
Alison Limerick,
The Fortunes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Judy Mowatt,
Tom Boy,
Marmalade,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
June Days,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swans,
Heaven 17,
Gerry Rafferty,
Susan Cadogan,
Neu!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Donny Hathaway,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lou Reed,
Tommy Roe,
Lower 48,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.