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 Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jawbox to the funk 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Glambeats Corp.,
David Axelrod,
Scratch Acid,
Animal Collective,
Accadde A,
Soft Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
Simply Red,
The Blackbyrds,
Bronski Beat,
Scott Walker,
Dawn Penn,
Outsiders,
Basic Channel,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants,
Motorama,
The Trojans,
The Selecter,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Khruangbin,
The Seeds,
AZ,
Eddi Front,
Connie Case,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
X-Ray Spex,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Angry Samoans,
Bobby Byrd,
Steve Hackett,
Jandek,
Nirvana,
Silicon Teens,
Main Source,
Fear,
Mars,
Lucky Dragons,
Jacques Brel,
T. Rex,
John Foxx,
PIL,
Kerri Chandler,
Royal Trux,
Chrome,
Marc Almond,
David McCallum,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jeff Lynne,
Byron Stingily,
Dead Boys,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Shadows of Knight,
Can,
Sandy B,
Boredoms,
Hashim,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.