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 Costa Rica and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Radiopuhelimet to the crunk 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Circle Jerks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sound Behaviour,
Buzzcocks,
Donny Hathaway,
David Bowie,
Soul II Soul,
Moby Grape,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Can,
Fugazi,
The Star Department,
FM Einheit,
Tubeway Army,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joyce Sims,
Dead Boys,
Scratch Acid,
The Cowsills,
Scion,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Unrelated Segments,
DNA,
Pere Ubu,
Mr. Review,
R.M.O.,
Absolute Body Control,
Television,
These Immortal Souls,
Accadde A,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott Heron,
Matthew Halsall,
Gong,
The Techniques,
Index,
Cal Tjader,
Mary Jane Girls,
The New Christs,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Germs,
Jeff Mills,
Zero Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Roger Hodgson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Suicide,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The United States of America,
Lucky Dragons,
This Heat,
Ice-T,
David Axelrod,
The Vogues,
Slave,
Hasil Adkins,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.