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 Mexico and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Warsaw to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ 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 sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
the Normal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Throbbing Gristle,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chris Corsano,
Oneida,
Schoolly D,
Bauhaus,
Girls At Our Best!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Qualms,
Soft Machine,
Black Bananas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Misunderstood,
Kaleidoscope,
Piero Umiliani,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Index,
Kerri Chandler,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dead Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Jawbox,
Lindisfarne,
Faraquet,
Arcadia,
Scrapy,
The Skatalites,
Quantec,
Graham Central Station,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eddi Front,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Buckinghams,
Rekid,
Second Layer,
Bang On A Can,
The Mojo Men,
Symarip,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5,
The Barracudas,
The Music Machine,
Matthew Bourne,
Lou Reed,
This Heat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nik Kershaw,
Shoche,
FM Einheit,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Busters,
Eden Ahbez,
Desert Stars,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Leaves,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.