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 Tunisia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jacques Brel to the dance 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Whodini,
Silicon Teens,
The Fall,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Busters,
Fela Kuti,
Magma,
The Move,
the Germs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Wyatt,
Marcia Griffiths,
DJ Sneak,
FM Einheit,
Ralphi Rosario,
CMW,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Tremeloes,
Neil Young,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Selecter,
Kaleidoscope,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Moon,
Motorama,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jawbox,
Lungfish,
The Mojo Men,
Thee Headcoats,
LL Cool J,
Dark Day,
Jandek,
Average White Band,
Chrome,
Amon Düül,
Sällskapet,
Animal Collective,
Anakelly,
Warsaw,
The Index,
Pere Ubu,
Harry Pussy,
Kenny Larkin,
La Düsseldorf,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Popol Vuh,
Neu!,
The Martian,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.