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 Namibia and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 harpsichord 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Brothers Johnson,
John Lydon,
The American Breed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultimate Spinach,
Skaos,
Soft Machine,
The Shadows of Knight,
Supertramp,
Das Ding,
Excepter,
T.S.O.L.,
Derrick Morgan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Von Mondo,
Wire,
Arab on Radar,
Echospace,
The Litter,
Davy DMX,
Nas,
Bill Near,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Misunderstood,
Minnie Riperton,
The Electric Prunes,
Scion,
Crispian St. Peters,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Deepchord,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Morten Harket,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dead C,
Darondo,
Sight & Sound,
Adolescents,
Jandek,
Althea and Donna,
kango's stein massive,
Dennis Brown,
Donny Hathaway,
Tomorrow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Angels of Light,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Rapeman,
Pagans,
Cameo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Slits,
Q and Not U,
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
Steve Hackett,
Anthony Braxton,
The Kinks,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.