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 Croatia and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Trumans Water to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Colin Newman,
Schoolly D,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Tubeway Army,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Birthday Party,
MDC,
The Detroit Cobras,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Buckinghams,
The J.B.'s,
The Gun Club,
Gong,
June Days,
Bauhaus,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Five Americans,
Shuggie Otis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Country Teasers,
Chris Corsano,
Wire,
X-Ray Spex,
Dawn Penn,
Roger Hodgson,
Terry Callier,
Nico,
The Saints,
Fad Gadget,
The Mighty Diamonds,
New Age Steppers,
Reuben Wilson,
Sun City Girls,
Skarface,
The Count Five,
Pere Ubu,
The Searchers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Janne Schatter,
World's Most,
Alice Coltrane,
Charles Mingus,
Los Fastidios,
Radiohead,
Faust,
Dorothy Ashby,
Franke,
Tommy Roe,
Crash Course in Science,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maurizio,
The Seeds,
Symarip,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.