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 Turkey and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Andrew Hill to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord 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 theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Jandek,
Essential Logic,
Minutemen,
Echospace,
Fear,
Eve St. Jones,
Bootsy Collins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
AZ,
The Happenings,
Gregory Isaacs,
Los Fastidios,
Khruangbin,
John Coltrane,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Audionom,
The Residents,
FM Einheit,
Duran Duran,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Hood,
Sun Ra,
Idris Muhammad,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Section 25,
Silicon Teens,
Agitation Free,
Ultravox,
a-ha,
Black Sheep,
The Busters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cecil Taylor,
Delon & Dalcan,
Isaac Hayes,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wings,
KRS-One,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aswad,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bob Dylan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Cowsills,
Morten Harket,
Mary Jane Girls,
Subhumans,
Sällskapet,
Cameo,
The Searchers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nirvana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
Little Man,
Eric Dolphy,
The Move,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.