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 Congo and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe 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 Sound Behaviour to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Barbara Tucker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Half Japanese,
Tres Demented,
Flamin' Groovies,
K-Klass,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Sonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gabor Szabo,
Mad Mike,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jacob Miller,
Eric Dolphy,
Joensuu 1685,
Negative Approach,
Bluetip,
The Stooges,
Public Enemy,
The Offenders,
Soulsonic Force,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mummies,
Dennis Brown,
Roy Ayers,
Flipper,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mantronix,
Rites of Spring,
Maurizio,
T. Rex,
The Smoke,
Idris Muhammad,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brass Construction,
James White and The Blacks,
The Names,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dawn Penn,
Wasted Youth,
Moss Icon,
John Foxx,
Can,
Hardrive,
Pere Ubu,
Country Teasers,
Sällskapet,
the Sonics,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Average White Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Don Cherry,
Heaven 17,
Parry Music,
Crash Course in Science,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.