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 Chile and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Amon Düül to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
The Residents,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Zeros,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DNA,
Icehouse,
Porter Ricks,
Josef K,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Alarm Clocks,
Don Cherry,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy Collins,
Pharoah Sanders,
KRS-One,
F. McDonald,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lindisfarne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Guru Guru,
Ohio Players,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Evens,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang Starr,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Normal,
Marc Almond,
Duran Duran,
Swell Maps,
the Bar-Kays,
Mission of Burma,
Eden Ahbez,
John Lydon,
Lungfish,
Severed Heads,
Minor Threat,
The Moody Blues,
Matthew Bourne,
Ponytail,
Reagan Youth,
Radiohead,
Albert Ayler,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye,
The Move,
Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Vogues,
Dawn Penn,
Adolescents,
China Crisis,
Donny Hathaway,
The Gap Band,
Rapeman,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.