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 Monaco and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Smoke to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Pus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Parrish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
Can,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pagans,
The Residents,
Alice Coltrane,
Nils Olav,
The Divine Comedy,
Simply Red,
Alphaville,
DNA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
A Certain Ratio,
Royal Trux,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lucky Dragons,
Siglo XX,
The Electric Prunes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Connie Case,
Kayak,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sister Nancy,
Radiohead,
The Buckinghams,
The Saints,
The Tremeloes,
KRS-One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Misunderstood,
LL Cool J,
Fad Gadget,
Jacob Miller,
Ronan,
Eddi Front,
48th St. Collective,
Boredoms,
Faraquet,
Q and Not U,
Agitation Free,
Eric Dolphy,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Star Department,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Normal,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Sonics,
Jeru the Damaja,
Duran Duran,
Depeche Mode,
Popol Vuh,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.