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 Burundi and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 Minor Threat to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Hood,
The Fall,
Kerri Chandler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gichy Dan,
Kool Moe Dee,
La Düsseldorf,
Iggy Pop,
Bang On A Can,
Amon Düül,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jeff Mills,
the Fania All-Stars,
Visage,
Steve Hackett,
Soulsonic Force,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Talk Talk,
Can,
DJ Style,
The Techniques,
Q65,
Minor Threat,
Ten City,
Barrington Levy,
Second Layer,
Hasil Adkins,
Dawn Penn,
Shuggie Otis,
Tom Boy,
the Soft Cell,
X-101,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chris & Cosey,
The Smiths,
Bush Tetras,
Barry Ungar,
Tubeway Army,
Ronan,
Moby Grape,
Lightning Bolt,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kayak,
Wire,
Spandau Ballet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Eddi Front,
Loose Ends,
Marshall Jefferson,
Monolake,
John Lydon,
Subhumans,
Reuben Wilson,
Deepchord,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.