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 Kosovo and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the rap 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Kayak,
Yaz,
Jandek,
Pulsallama,
The Invisible,
Flipper,
Cheater Slicks,
Morten Harket,
Don Cherry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Au Pairs,
B.T. Express,
The Gap Band,
OOIOO,
Nils Olav,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang Green,
Lucky Dragons,
The Smoke,
Accadde A,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rosa Yemen,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
FM Einheit,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Maurizio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Patti Smith,
Suburban Knight,
Rites of Spring,
The Pretty Things,
Howard Jones,
The Selecter,
Slave,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sixth Finger,
The Fuzztones,
Rekid,
Henry Cow,
Fad Gadget,
Sex Pistols,
The Offenders,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Electric Prunes,
The Searchers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Little Man,
Steve Hackett,
H. Thieme,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fire Engines,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang Starr,
The Monks,
Urselle,
Thee Headcoats,
Camouflage,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.