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 Tuvalu and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
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 snare 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 Dave Clark Five to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Circle Jerks,
Matthew Bourne,
Masters at Work,
Tubeway Army,
Lungfish,
Swans,
Bang On A Can,
Vainqueur,
Eric Copeland,
Ten City,
Animal Collective,
MC5,
Underground Resistance,
Inner City,
Make Up,
Sister Nancy,
Danielle Patucci,
Josef K,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Martian,
the Soft Cell,
FM Einheit,
Blancmange,
Roy Ayers,
the Slits,
Kurtis Blow,
The Associates,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeff Lynne,
Leonard Cohen,
Sam Rivers,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Buzzcocks,
Panda Bear,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jerry's Kids,
Idris Muhammad,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barrington Levy,
The United States of America,
EPMD,
Connie Case,
Saccharine Trust,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lalo Schifrin,
Flipper,
Isaac Hayes,
Depeche Mode,
Parry Music,
Gong,
Second Layer,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Five Americans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.