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 Ireland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 II to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cramps,
Average White Band,
Lightning Bolt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Max Romeo,
Terry Callier,
Glenn Branca,
Joe Smooth,
Erasure,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Das Ding,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arab on Radar,
DNA,
the Slits,
Brass Construction,
The Neon Judgement,
Joensuu 1685,
Neil Young,
Joyce Sims,
Dorothy Ashby,
kango's stein massive,
PIL,
Clear Light,
Blossom Toes,
The Walker Brothers,
the Soft Cell,
Cabaret Voltaire,
F. McDonald,
Angry Samoans,
The Remains,
John Lydon,
Bill Near,
Dual Sessions,
Wally Richardson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bang On A Can,
These Immortal Souls,
Eddi Front,
Isaac Hayes,
Tommy Roe,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nas,
Letta Mbulu,
MDC,
CMW,
Scott Walker,
Matthew Bourne,
Spoonie Gee,
Television,
X-101,
Kool Moe Dee,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mo-Dettes,
Chrome,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Icehouse,
The Barracudas,
Jacob Miller,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.