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 Maldives and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare 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 Lakeside to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
The Doobie Brothers,
AZ,
Colin Newman,
Boogie Down Productions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Association,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
Eric Copeland,
Minor Threat,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABBA,
The Move,
Khruangbin,
Barbara Tucker,
Toni Rubio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Reagan Youth,
John Lydon,
Aaron Thompson,
Q65,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
June of 44,
Chrome,
The Dead C,
Arab on Radar,
Oneida,
kango's stein massive,
Nils Olav,
Qualms,
The Cowsills,
Blancmange,
Scan 7,
Hasil Adkins,
Quando Quango,
Sandy B,
Organ,
Banda Bassotti,
T.S.O.L.,
Fugazi,
Cecil Taylor,
Y Pants,
MC5,
Average White Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Malaria!,
Terry Callier,
The Martian,
New Order,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tears for Fears,
Crooked Eye,
Ultravox,
Bill Wells,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Vladislav Delay,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.