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 Ecuador and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 DeepChord presents Echospace 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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Popol Vuh,
Jeff Lynne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang of Four,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Erykah Badu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Bananas,
DNA,
The Vogues,
Grauzone,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Hardrive,
Public Image Ltd.,
Traffic Nightmare,
Max Romeo,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxy Music,
Blancmange,
Tubeway Army,
Eli Mardock,
Pierre Henry,
Gang Green,
X-Ray Spex,
Sun City Girls,
Newcleus,
Technova,
Be Bop Deluxe,
X-102,
The Remains,
Crime,
Kaleidoscope,
Donny Hathaway,
The Skatalites,
Symarip,
DJ Sneak,
Cybotron,
Saccharine Trust,
Lee Hazlewood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Essential Logic,
Flash Fearless,
Hoover,
The Fortunes,
the Human League,
The Names,
Soft Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Flag,
Eurythmics,
Brick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.