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 Brazil and from Halifax.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Joe Smooth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sparks,
The Leaves,
Monolake,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Zapp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Happenings,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nirvana,
Nick Fraelich,
Intrusion,
June of 44,
Sound Behaviour,
The Selecter,
Dawn Penn,
Moby Grape,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soft Cell,
Stetsasonic,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Music Machine,
Joe Smooth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Coltrane,
Derrick May,
Faraquet,
John Foxx,
Radio Birdman,
Franke,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soft Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Pere Ubu,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bill Wells,
The Five Americans,
The Kinks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Skarface,
Black Flag,
kango's stein massive,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jawbox,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hoover,
La Düsseldorf,
Funky Four + One,
Gregory Isaacs,
Model 500,
Freddie Wadling,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Television Personalities,
LL Cool J,
48th St. Collective,
Ludus,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.