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 Afghanistan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Hashim,
Derrick May,
Deepchord,
Juan Atkins,
Scrapy,
Harmonia,
Pulsallama,
Kerri Chandler,
Nik Kershaw,
Eric Copeland,
Kerrie Biddell,
Altered Images,
Groovy Waters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pantytec,
Jacques Brel,
Susan Cadogan,
Alton Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fuzztones,
Ituana,
Excepter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Derrick Morgan,
Erykah Badu,
Can,
Roger Hodgson,
Ossler,
The Sound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
R.M.O.,
The Human League,
Audionom,
The Move,
New Order,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kenny Larkin,
Jandek,
Smog,
Chris & Cosey,
Lebanon Hanover,
Godley & Creme,
Youth Brigade,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
B.T. Express,
the Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
New York Dolls,
MDC,
The Seeds,
David Bowie,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.