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 Italy 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Scientists to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Swell Maps,
The Kinks,
Patti Smith,
Jandek,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Smiths,
Anakelly,
Bob Dylan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Durutti Column,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Standells,
Nico,
Barrington Levy,
Newcleus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Oneida,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Gories,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Alton Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Dual Sessions,
Crooked Eye,
Colin Newman,
Mantronix,
Skarface,
The Divine Comedy,
Section 25,
The Doors,
The Human League,
Sex Pistols,
The Leaves,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Electric Prunes,
Grauzone,
Joe Smooth,
Tom Boy,
Thompson Twins,
Motorama,
Morten Harket,
The Move,
Young Marble Giants,
Eurythmics,
Agent Orange,
Bluetip,
Arab on Radar,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deadbeat,
The Walker Brothers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Michelle Simonal,
Yusef Lateef,
Todd Rundgren,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.