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 Argentina and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the güiro 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 Main Source to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Minnie Riperton,
Gang Green,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sparks,
ABC,
Matthew Halsall,
Flash Fearless,
Jacob Miller,
Tears for Fears,
The Gories,
The Slackers,
Smog,
Boz Scaggs,
Sex Pistols,
Moby Grape,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tubeway Army,
PIL,
Wally Richardson,
Sexual Harrassment,
The United States of America,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Guru Guru,
Lyres,
Quando Quango,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Quadrant,
Gil Scott Heron,
Reagan Youth,
Mantronix,
Fugazi,
Lucky Dragons,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sight & Sound,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bush Tetras,
Slave,
Bang On A Can,
Jacques Brel,
The J.B.'s,
Tropical Tobacco,
Au Pairs,
Pere Ubu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker,
World's Most,
Nils Olav,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Trojans,
The Misunderstood,
John Cale,
Trumans Water,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Techniques,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.