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 Madagascar and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Chocolate Watch Band to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Offenders,
Iggy Pop,
Half Japanese,
Youth Brigade,
The Sound,
Davy DMX,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cluster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Copeland,
Anakelly,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Duran Duran,
This Heat,
Deadbeat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Crispian St. Peters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
U.S. Maple,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Skatalites,
Theoretical Girls,
the Normal,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tres Demented,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Modern Lovers,
Simply Red,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eli Mardock,
Ultra Naté,
D'Angelo,
The Pretty Things,
the Germs,
L. Decosne,
R.M.O.,
B.T. Express,
Arcadia,
Infiniti,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Clear Light,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy Collins,
Maurizio,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rotary Connection,
Throbbing Gristle,
Newcleus,
The Zeros,
Mission of Burma,
The Birthday Party,
Trumans Water,
Juan Atkins,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sugar Minott,
Pantytec,
Porter Ricks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.