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 Grenada and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Michael McDonald 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 The Moleskins to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
The Kinks,
Oblivians,
Harpers Bizarre,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sixth Finger,
Cluster,
Easy Going,
Drexciya,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fatback Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crooked Eye,
June of 44,
Arcadia,
Reagan Youth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kas Product,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rekid,
The Dirtbombs,
Chris & Cosey,
Index,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fire Engines,
David McCallum,
Peter & Gordon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Crispian St. Peters,
Colin Newman,
Scrapy,
Zero Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Arab on Radar,
Monolake,
Gong,
Adolescents,
World's Most,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marmalade,
Josef K,
Jandek,
Susan Cadogan,
Quando Quango,
Minor Threat,
Maleditus Sound,
Blancmange,
Lalann,
Massinfluence,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Black Moon,
In Retrospect,
Althea and Donna,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Womack,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.