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 Netherlands and from Philadelphia.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
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 chamberlin 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 David Axelrod to the disco 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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Essential Logic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cymande,
Joyce Sims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Black Flag,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Sheep,
Rod Modell,
Terry Callier,
Livin' Joy,
LL Cool J,
Banda Bassotti,
Main Source,
Saccharine Trust,
Charles Mingus,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Litter,
Gang Starr,
Loose Ends,
Wire,
Piero Umiliani,
the Swans,
H. Thieme,
Jacques Brel,
New York Dolls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
cv313,
Soul II Soul,
Vladislav Delay,
EPMD,
Boredoms,
Harmonia,
Agent Orange,
La Düsseldorf,
B.T. Express,
Todd Terry,
The Fall,
Suicide,
The Buckinghams,
Q and Not U,
Trumans Water,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Monks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Star Department,
Davy DMX,
Sex Pistols,
the Normal,
E-Dancer,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visage,
These Immortal Souls,
Lightning Bolt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Swans,
The Beau Brummels,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.