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 Jordan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Tropical Tobacco to the electroclash 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Au Pairs,
Fluxion,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Symarip,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Avey Tare,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
FM Einheit,
Freddie Wadling,
Wolf Eyes,
Barbara Tucker,
Stockholm Monsters,
Skarface,
Easy Going,
Rapeman,
Matthew Halsall,
Yaz,
David Axelrod,
Neil Young,
Mission of Burma,
DNA,
Rosa Yemen,
Isaac Hayes,
Grauzone,
Jerry's Kids,
Nils Olav,
Fela Kuti,
Camberwell Now,
Jawbox,
Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
Oneida,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wire,
Inner City,
Franke,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
World's Most,
Flash Fearless,
Anthony Braxton,
Amazonics,
Joyce Sims,
John Cale,
Gichy Dan,
Index,
Pierre Henry,
The Count Five,
Scratch Acid,
Agitation Free,
Don Cherry,
Massinfluence,
Blancmange,
The Five Americans,
Crispian St. Peters,
Blossom Toes,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.