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 Kazakhstan and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Iggy Pop,
AZ,
Liliput,
Swell Maps,
Mo-Dettes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Detroit Cobras,
Suicide,
X-Ray Spex,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Can,
Colin Newman,
The Red Krayola,
Crime,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Letta Mbulu,
Mark Hollis,
Royal Trux,
Trumans Water,
Pylon,
Robert Görl,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rotary Connection,
Laurel Aitken,
John Foxx,
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Al Stewart,
One Last Wish,
The Slackers,
E-Dancer,
Radiohead,
Sam Rivers,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Vogues,
Public Enemy,
Yazoo,
Aaron Thompson,
Panda Bear,
Eurythmics,
Bobby Sherman,
Peter & Gordon,
Outsiders,
Peter and Kerry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New York Dolls,
World's Most,
Khruangbin,
Susan Cadogan,
The Barracudas,
Massinfluence,
Junior Murvin,
JFA,
Marc Almond,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bush Tetras,
Patti Smith,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.