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 Netherlands and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the jazz 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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Groovy Waters,
Country Teasers,
Peter & Gordon,
Sonic Youth,
Aural Exciters,
Sun City Girls,
the Human League,
Vladislav Delay,
DNA,
Janne Schatter,
Reagan Youth,
The Fall,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Panda Bear,
Jandek,
Dawn Penn,
John Holt,
Model 500,
Oneida,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Buckinghams,
The Neon Judgement,
Pierre Henry,
Sun Ra,
Can,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gladiators,
Unwound,
Agitation Free,
Eurythmics,
Monolake,
Visage,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Technova,
Radiohead,
The Star Department,
Pole,
Boogie Down Productions,
Graham Central Station,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang of Four,
Isaac Hayes,
The Evens,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Monks,
Donald Byrd,
Echospace,
Mr. Review,
Sound Behaviour,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ludus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fatback Band,
Skriet,
New York Dolls,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.