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 Swaziland and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the crunk 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bootsy Collins,
the Soft Cell,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fuzztones,
Glenn Branca,
Amazonics,
The Moleskins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gichy Dan,
Theoretical Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Index,
Charles Mingus,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yaz,
The Motions,
Delta 5,
Man Parrish,
The Happenings,
Jerry Gold Smith,
A Certain Ratio,
The Mummies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gap Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Ken Boothe,
Connie Case,
The Litter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Minny Pops,
The New Christs,
Silicon Teens,
Wings,
Alphaville,
Simply Red,
Negative Approach,
Absolute Body Control,
PIL,
The Angels of Light,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
L. Decosne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roxette,
Dead Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ten City,
Barry Ungar,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
JFA,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.