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 Ethiopia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer 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 Lee Hazlewood to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Josef K,
10cc,
Jacob Miller,
Junior Murvin,
Little Man,
H. Thieme,
Pagans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
PIL,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moleskins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sight & Sound,
Joyce Sims,
Suicide,
Sound Behaviour,
Outsiders,
Alton Ellis,
Metal Thangz,
Black Moon,
Scratch Acid,
Simply Red,
Intrusion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neu!,
Grey Daturas,
Marvin Gaye,
Skriet,
The Slits,
Hasil Adkins,
Radiohead,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Bananas,
MC5,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
48th St. Collective,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mo-Dettes,
Trumans Water,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kaleidoscope,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Make Up,
T. Rex,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Flag,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
L. Decosne,
Delta 5,
James White and The Blacks,
The Five Americans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dead Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.