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 Iraq and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Cure to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Gories,
Sound Behaviour,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tres Demented,
The Velvet Underground,
Johnny Clarke,
Sight & Sound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Intrusion,
AZ,
Slick Rick,
Malaria!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Cale,
Carl Craig,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bootsy Collins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dave Gahan,
Bluetip,
The Five Americans,
The Zeros,
Fela Kuti,
Wasted Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobby Sherman,
Alison Limerick,
Drexciya,
Roxette,
Grauzone,
Mars,
Scion,
Soulsonic Force,
Neu!,
Newcleus,
the Slits,
Adolescents,
The Mojo Men,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
UT,
MDC,
Ronan,
Ten City,
Quando Quango,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Swans,
Ossler,
The Blues Magoos,
Main Source,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra,
Al Stewart,
Dark Day,
Average White Band,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.