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 Romania and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Jacques Brel to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultra Naté,
JFA,
Q65,
Barrington Levy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Von Mondo,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
The Moody Blues,
Slick Rick,
Junior Murvin,
Crash Course in Science,
Wings,
Buzzcocks,
Mad Mike,
The Standells,
Althea and Donna,
Sandy B,
Glenn Branca,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alton Ellis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Juan Atkins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bootsy Collins,
Barry Ungar,
Absolute Body Control,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Bourne,
The Kinks,
Lightning Bolt,
The Tremeloes,
Cal Tjader,
Pantaleimon,
Alice Coltrane,
Deadbeat,
PIL,
Alphaville,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Slackers,
Quadrant,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Patti Smith,
Chris Corsano,
Arcadia,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ten City,
Connie Case,
Crooked Eye,
Anthony Braxton,
Zero Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Slits,
Zapp,
Stereo Dub,
Blossom Toes,
Davy DMX,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.