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 Bahamas and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 X-102 to the disco 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Bootsy Collins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker,
Johnny Clarke,
B.T. Express,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Smiths,
the Human League,
OOIOO,
Jeru the Damaja,
CMW,
Urselle,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Offenders,
Surgeon,
Qualms,
The Leaves,
Vainqueur,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gregory Isaacs,
Make Up,
Underground Resistance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pagans,
June of 44,
Lucky Dragons,
Siglo XX,
Marcia Griffiths,
Trumans Water,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hot Snakes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Junior Murvin,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Franke,
Chris & Cosey,
the Germs,
Magazine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Howard Jones,
Kerri Chandler,
Sarah Menescal,
Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
The Gladiators,
The Remains,
David Axelrod,
Schoolly D,
Faust,
Pantaleimon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Maleditus Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minnie Riperton,
Sexual Harrassment,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.