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 Grenada and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 Technova to the funk 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
Gang Green,
David Bowie,
Davy DMX,
Traffic Nightmare,
Desert Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Harry Pussy,
Black Sheep,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sixth Finger,
Bluetip,
the Bar-Kays,
Scott Walker,
Parry Music,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stetsasonic,
Soft Cell,
Dave Gahan,
Brick,
Electric Light Orchestra,
KRS-One,
Drive Like Jehu,
Loose Ends,
The J.B.'s,
Wolf Eyes,
Morten Harket,
The Moleskins,
Can,
Leonard Cohen,
Yusef Lateef,
Subhumans,
Black Bananas,
Minny Pops,
Skaos,
Mission of Burma,
Reuben Wilson,
The Evens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Womack,
Marvin Gaye,
Steve Hackett,
DJ Sneak,
Camberwell Now,
the Human League,
The Saints,
Dead Boys,
The Gap Band,
Moss Icon,
Schoolly D,
the Association,
John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
David McCallum,
Mary Jane Girls,
kango's stein massive,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül,
Erykah Badu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.